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" Jnd only the Master shall praise us, and
only the Master shall blame;
And no one shall work for money, and no
I one shall work for fame;
But each for the joy of working; and each
in his separate star,
Shall draw the Thing as he sees it for the
God of Things as they are!"
THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL
FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA
1913
THE BATTLEFIELD
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The Editor's Wail
E slept and dreamed sweet dreams
Of peace beyond compare ;
Annual "stuff" appeared in reams
Without an editor's care.
We woke. Before our eyes,
Unused to drudgeries' woe,
Were naanuscripts — sources of sighs-
In stacks both high and low.
The midnight oil we burned ;
We flecked our hair with gray.
For fame at first we yearned.
But 'tis not so today.
Take this completed task,
Ye critics, as ye may ;
Your mercy we do not ask,
For we worked for love, not pay.
-Editor.
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THE BATTLEFIELD
Calendar for 1912-13
September 12 — Opening of school.
" 13-14 — Matriculation.
" 20 — Getting acquainted; Y. "W. C. A. reception.
" 21 — Glee Club entertains.
" 26 — Address by Ex-Governor Swanson.
26— County Fair.
October 5 — Tacky Party.
" 5 — President Russell moved into his new home.
" 31 — Darkues.s — ghosts and witches parade.
November 8 — Lecture by Dr. C. Alphonso Smith, of Universitj' of Virginia.
" 15 — Danger! Fire drill.
" 19 — Election of The Battlefield staff.
" 23 — Basketball victory.
" 25 — Lecture by Mr. George C. Round of Board of Trustees.
' ' 28 — Thanksgiving. ,
December 6 — Lecture by Dr. W. M. Forrest of University of Virginia.
" 7 — Fun seekers take a trip to Washington to see Peter Pan.
12— Y. W. C. A. Bazaar.
" 13 — Fiftieth anniversary of Battle of Fredericksburg.
" 16 — Alice in Wonderland — a great success.
" 20 — Going home.
January 17 — First Professionals perform a few stunts.
' ' 21 — Lecture by Ex-Governor Montague.
25— Book Party— Y. W. C. A.
" 31— Illustrated lecture by Mr. T. S. Settle.
February 3-7 — Examinations.
' ' 10 — Lecture by Miss Vivian Conway.
" 11-15 — Pictures taken for The Battlefield.
" 13 — Glee Club Recital.
21— Lecture by Mr. C. G. Maphis.
" 22 — Reception to students by Student Activities Committee.
" 28 — Richmond Glee Club concert.
March 4 — Students and Faculty attend the Inauguration.
" 15 — Minstrel Show — Senior Class.
21-24— Easter.
TO OUR PRESIDENT
EDWARD HUTSON RUSSELL
WHOSE LIFE HAS BEEN ONE OF SELF-SACRIFICING
DEVOTION TO THE EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF
HIS NATIVE STATE AND WHOSE SIGNAL SUC-
CESS IN LAYING THE FOUNDATION OF
THIS INSTITUTION HAS MADE IT A
STRONG BULWARK AGAINST
THE FORCES OF IGNO-
RANCE AND ERROR
THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
BY THE CLASS OF 1913
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THE BATTLEFIELD
Board of Trustees
DR. J. A. C. CHANDLER, Richmond.
JOHN T. DANIEL, Cape CUiarles.
HON. ALDEN BELL, Culpeper.
CHARLES G. MAPHIS, Charlottesville.
DR. A. S. KEMPER, Lynnwood.
GEORGE C. ROUND, Manassas.
PETER J. WHITE, Richmond.
HON. S. W. HOLT, Newport News.
HON. C. 'CONOR GOOLRICK, Fredericksburg.
HON. R. C. STEARNES, JR., Superintendent of Public Instruction, ex officio,
Richmond.
THE BATTLEFIELD
The Battlefield Staff
Editor-in-Chief
MARTHA BELLE PEARCE.
Assistant Editors
BUFORD KIRTLEY LYNE
ETHEL LOUISE TAYLOR
Business Manager
GAl^ VAUGHAN WILSON
Assistant Business Manager
LOUISE LEWIS
Art
JULIA KEATON
Department Editors
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KATHARINE BARTENSTEIN
Poetry
ELSIE COLEMAN
Wit
ISABEL WILLIS
Society
MYRTIS TANKARD
Athletics
MARY W. JOHNSON
Class Editors
ANNA DIEDRICH, '13
GRAHAM MASTIN '14
ELIZABETH CHENERY '15
ELIZA PEIRCE '16
EMMA LAWLESS '17
ETHEL BULLOCK '18
Advisory Committee
A. B. CHANDLER, JR.
OLIVE M. HINMAN
VIRGINIA M. GOOLRICK
DORA J. DADMUN
THE BATTLEFIELD
W. N. HAMLET
Mathematics and Science
A. B. CHANDLER, JE.
Latin aud Oeograpliy
B. Y. TYNER
EiUii.-ation
VIRGINIA E. STONE
Primary Methods
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FRANCES L. WITHERS
Houfcholil Arts
CAROLINE R. JACKSON
Rural Arts
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OLIVER M. HINMAN
Manual Arts and Drawing
VIRGINIA M. GOOLRICK
History and Civics
THE BATTLEFIELD
DORA J. DADMUN
Euglish
ANNIE I. ANTHONY
Modern Languages
MAKGAEET FKASEK
Director of Music
GARY GRAVES
Director Physical Education
THE BATTLEFIELD
MARION C. FORBES
Head of Home and Eeeistrar
C. MASON SMITH
Physician
NORA C. WILLIS
Instructor in Instrumental Music
GUNYON M. HARRISON
Supt. Elect. Dept. and Asst. in Mathematics
THE BATTLEFIELD
The Crazy Old Bell
ROM before the break of day
Till the lights go out at night,
Till the footsteps of Miss Forbes,
Which sound so soft and light,
Have echoed softly down the halls
And we all get out of sight,
There 's one thing that 's a worry —
Normal girls will say I 'm right —
It's that crazy old bell.
No matter if you're snoozing;
You staid out late at a feast;
Perhaps;, you have a test today;
Till twelve you studied at least;
Long before your eyes can see
The day dawn in the East,
You can hear the awful clanging.
Which you think will never cease.
It 's that crazy old bell.
The same thing happens in the morn
When you 're making up your bed ;
You hardly have the time to tuck
The covers at the head;
Your hair has not been combed today.
Nor tied your ribbons red.
Oh! what do you think mother would say?
But the fault, as I have said
Is that crazy old bell.
The con 's outweigh the pro 's ;
But there 's one time, I declare,
When, if that bell should wake the dead,
I certainly wouldn 't care ;
For dinner is a thing which we
Consider is too rare,
And even for tough steak and hash,
I 'd race you down the stair.
Bless that crazy old bell!
And that 's the way it always is ;
It keeps us on the go.
And if our heads weren 't on right tight.
We'd lose them all, I know.
Won 't we be glad when every thing
Can go along just so,
Without a thing to wake us up.
And we can be right slow
Without that crazy old bell ?
16 Nannie Oliver.
THE BATTLEFIELD
The Battlefield
When first this school began to wage
Against society's foes
A war in which all should engage
To lessen human woes,
Our forty-two of maidens fair,
Arrayed for right and truth.
Decided it should be their care
To help their country's youth.
So thru that year we bravely fought
Toward the goal that we desired.
And strove to learn whate'er was taught,
With that ambition fired.
But when we pitched our tents once more,
Ten comrades were away;
The rest made up a steady corps
Alert for work and play.
And towards our goal we've striven each day
As Lee would have us do.
We've tried in work and tried in play
To our colors to be true.
Here where so many men have fought
With all their strength and might.
Here where our brave forefathers sought
To win what they thought right;
On this dear spot with mem 'ries filled
Of soldiers true and brave;
Here where so many men were killed —
So many found a grave;
Here we have fought our fight as well
As those brave men of old;
For tho no one by bullet fell,
A battle o 'er us rolled.
And now at last this war is o 'er,
These battles fought and w'on.
And many hearts are sad and sore
To think school life is done.
We now go to a broader field.
The broader field of life.
And to its foes we '11 never yield,
But stiU keep up the strife
Against those ancient hated foes.
Of ignorance and woe;
This is the warfare each one chose;
To battle now we go.
Those foes are still within our land;
Our country needs the brave ;
We each have given heart and hand
Our nation 's youth to save.
Elsie Coleman.
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Motto : Ijive on the Heights
Class 1913
Flower: Sweet Pea
Colors: Lavender and Green
The fragrant flowery days of June have come to us again.
But we view their golden splendor with a gladness fraught with pain.
They bid us cease from labor, and we find that message sweet.
Yet they bring another message which our hearts ache to repeat.
Chorus
Dear Class of 1913, we tonight must say farewell,
The sorrow that we feel at this no mortal tongue can tell.
For two short years we've toiled here, and now our work is o'er,
We part tonight to meet again, united never more.
We now must leave" the Normal where we 've spent such happy hours,
And our sorrow at this thought now plans for future .joy o 'erpowers,-
Tho ' we 've often longed for freedom when our world appeared unkind,
We realize that with it we must leave school joj-s behind.
We now must leave school life, and leave each privilege and rule,
For we are passing from school life to life 's great glorious school.
Here we have been preparing for the work that we must do.
For the world is needing workers who have pro^-en tried and true.
To leave our comrades makes us sad and fills our hearts with pain,
We know this happy company will never meet again.
The brightest gem of memory's crown is that whose shining rays,
Brings back the recollection of these hapjjy past school days. Elsie Coleman.
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THE BATTLEFIELD
KATHARINE BAETENSTEIN
Warreuton, Virginia
"Katrine," "Kit,
'Aurora BoreaUs"
Katharine 's sure to be much in demand
If any good singing is planned.
She accompanies well
And our singers can tell
That this art is too rare in tlie land.
Vice-President Class, 1912-13
Music Editor The Battlefield
Vice-President Glee Club, 1912-13
Secretary-Treasurer Eed-Headed Club
Secretary Y. W. C. A., 1912-13
Chairman Social Committee Y. W. C. A., 19:
Accompanist Glee Club, 1911-12-13
Woodrow Wilson Literary Society
Better-to-Sew My Dear Club
Cynics ' Club
ELIZABETH LINDSAY BILLINGSLEY
Lignum, Virginia
"Bill"
There is a young lady called BUI;
There 's a rumor she sometimes keeps still ;
Her eyes sjjarkle with fun
When some mischief is done
And she talks like a run-away mill.
Cynic 's Club
Anti-Crush Club
Woodrow Wilson Literary Society
Better-to-Sew My Dear Club '
Eifle Club
Nightingale Club.
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LOTTIE LEE BEOADDUS
Smoots, Virginia
"Lot"
From Caroline comes Lottie Lee;
At basketball, clever is she;
She has not much to say;
Yet her smile day by day
Wins new friends for our dear Lottie Lee.
President Athletic AsFOciatiou
President Caroline Club
Captain Basketball Teim, 1911-12
Chairman Inter-Collegiate Committee Y. W. C. A.
Anti-Crush Club
Post Walking Club
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MATTIE HOGGE BUNKLEY
Tampico, Virginia
"Bat"
There is a young widow called Mattie;
Slie's neither too thin nor to fatty;
Down the bill she will go
With the rest in a row,
Looking always so neat and so natty.
y. W. C. A., 1911-12-13
Woodrow Wilson Literary Society, 1911-12-13
MARY ELIZABETH CHESLEY
Fredericksburg, Virginia
There is a young lady named Mary,
Not the one who was very contrary;
For this Mary is dear;
She is full of good cheer.
And she warbles just like a canary.
Y. W. C. A.
Dramatic Club
Woodrow Wilson Literary Society
Eifle Club
ALICE CHILTON 4>
Lancaster, Virginia
A student from Lancaster came;
Sweet Alice may well be her name;
A vision we hold —
She '11 not teach till she 's old ;
Some knight will come urging his claim.
Secretary- Treasurer Class, 1911-12
Treasurer Class, 1912-13
President Russell Literary Society, 1911-12-1:
President Tennis Club
Vice-President Dramatic Club, 1912-13
Secretary-Treasurer Down The River Club
Secretary-Treasurer ' ' Happy Dozen ' '
Secretary-Treasurer Glee Club, 1911-12
Duke of House of Lancaster
Cotillion Club
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ELSIE COLEMAN
Chase City, Virginia
There is a young lady, not small,
Whose one wish is to play basketball.
She has many a crush,
Who all talk so much slush
That our'Elsie is pleased with it all.
President Anti-Crush Club, 1912-13
Glee Club, 1911-12-13
Tennis Club, 1912-13
Cotillion Club, 1912-13
Woodrow Wilson Literary Society, 1911-12-13
Class Poet
Poetry Editor The BATTLEriELD
Rifle Club, 1912-13
HELEN LANE DANIEL 11 2
University, Virginia
"HcU'ii I>"
Pair Helen is brimming with fun.
At school a great feat she has done;
For in Latin 'tis said
She remained at the head
Of a class which consisted of one.
President Senior Class, 1912-13
Prophet Senior Class
President Woodrow Wilson Literary Society,
1911-12-13
Vice-President Y. W. C. A. and Chairman Mem-
bership Committee, 1912-13 Treasurer 11 2 1912-13
Secretary Eiohmoud Club, 1911-12
Chairman Devotional Committee Y. W. C. A.,
1911-12 Glee Club, 1911-12-13 ,
Dramatic Club, 1912-13 Cotillion Club, 1912-13
Richmond Club, 1912-13 Rifle Club, 1912-13
Delegate to State Y. W. C. A. Convention at
Lynchburg, 1912
ANNA ELIZABETH DIEDRICH
Waverly, Virginia
From Waverly, Anna, dear lass,
Came here with her face for her pass.
There 's not one so bright.
When the lessons are light.
As Anna, the wit of the class.
Class Editor The Battlefield
Dramatic Club, 1912-13
Cotillion Club, 1912-13
Glee Club, 1911-12-13
Woodrow Wilson Literary Society, 1911-12-13
THE BATTLEFIELD
OEA CONSTANCE GREEN
Atlee, Virginia
"Miss Ora"
There is a young lady, eighteen,
Who never once idling is seen.
Whenever you look,
She is deep in a book;
But she, evQn then, is quite Green.
Secretary Class, 1912-13
Leader Green Walking Club, 1912-13
Finance Committee Y. W. C. A., 1911-12-13
Secretary Hanover Club, 1912-13
Russell Literary Society, 1911-12-13
ANNE KAVENEL HENRY 11 2
Woodville, Virginia
"Nell"
There is a young lady named Anne;
Whenever she wants to, she can.
Since her face one might paint
As madonna or saint.
One might get a wrong idea of Anne.
President Cotillion Club, 1912-13
Secretary 11 2 1912-13
Better-to-Sew My Dear Club, 1912-13
Rifle Club, 1912-13
JULIA WESTWOOD KEATON
Hampton, Virginia
' ' Jute, '
'Sis'
Miss Keaton, who's likewise called .Julia,
Is not at all queer and ' ' jieculiah ; ' '
Though not of great size.
She has very bright eyes;
In a contest of wits, she might "fool yeh.''
Art Editor The Battlefield
Devotional Committee Y. W. C. A., 1911-12-13
Woodrow Wilson Literary Society, 1911-12-13
Nightingale Club, 1912-13
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FANNIE TYKEE KENNEDY
Mineral, Virginia
A gifted young "school marm " is Fannie
As to arts she is master of niiiny.
She can sing like a lark ;
She can draw in the dark ;
And can cook and can sew, can Fannie.
Y. W. C. A., 1911-1912
Glee Club, 1911-1912
Double Quartette, 1911-1912
Rifle flub, 1912-1913
LUCY KENNEDY
Mineral, Virginia
"Elsie" "L. C."
'Tis Lucy, whose face is as sweet
As her dress is all dainty and neat,
•In the Glee Cluo she sings.
And, among other things.
She makes candy that cannot be beat.
Glee Club, 1911-1912
Y. W. C. A.. 1911-1912
RUTH HELEN LORD
Richmond, Virginia
' ' Peggy ' '
Our favorite singer is Ruth,
Beloved for her sweetness and truth;
To her work she will hurry
Eight away in a flurry.
I tell you it 's hard to catch Ruth.
Class Historian
Secretary Glee Club, 1912-1913
Treasurer Y. W. C. A., 1912-1913
Treasurer Richmond Club, 1912-1913
Business Manager Dramatic Club, 1912-1913
Chairman Finance Committee Y. W. C. A., 1912
1913
Woodrow Wilson Literary Society, 1912-1913
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BUFOED KIRTLEY LSTNE
Newport News, Virginia
"Boo" "Iley" "Meander" " Coutee"
There is a young lady named Lyne;
In music tbey say she is fine.
Oh, how she can sing
Like a bird in the spring,
This skilful young teacher named Lyne.
Assistant Editor-in-Chief The Battlefield
Vice-President Woodrow Wilson Literary Society,
1911-12-13
Secretary Dramatic Club, 1911-12-13
Representative Cynics' Club
luter-Collegiate Committee Y. W. C. A., *911-12
Religious Meetings Committee Y. W. C. A., 1912-13
Nightingale Club, 1912-13
Anti-Crush Club, 1912-13
Cotillion Club, 1912-13
Tennis Club, 1911-12-13
Better-to-Sew My Dear Club, 1912-13
Senior Class Basketball Team, 1911-12
NETTIE CORBIN MARYE
Fredericksturg, Virginia
Our Nettie, who lives iu the city,
Never needs, upon that account, pity.
Though she tears out to school,
She arrives looking cool.
With a color both rosy and pretty.
ANNIE FONTAINE NICHOLAS
Scottsville, Virginia
With Margaret goes sister Annie,
Who would have rhymed better with Fannie.
She 's so buried in books
That quite often it looks
As if folks didn 't interest Annie.
Woodrow Wilson Literary Society, 1911-12-13
Y. W. C. A., 1912-13
Treasurer Y. W. C. A., 1911-12
THE BATTLEFIELD
MARGARET MICOU NICHOLAS
Scottsville, Virginia
"Sidy"
Is it wrong to call Margaret ' ' Nick ' '
When tlie editor says, ' ' Now, be quick ' ' ?
Not the old Nick, we mean.
That is plain to be seen.
We can rhyme her with sick or with kick.
Chairman Missionary Committee Y. W. C. A.
1911-12
Chairman Religious Meetings Committee Y. W. C. A.
1912-13
Woodrow Wilson Literary Society, 1911-12
Glee Club, 1911-12-13
SALLY HENRIETTE NORRIS
Fredericksburg, Virginia
With flying feet comes merry Sally;
Her clocks and our clocks do not tally.
It oft seems her fate
To reach a class late;
Do you think that, perhaps, she maj' dally?
Glee Club, 1912-13
MARTHA BELLE PEARCE
Richmond, Virginia
" Biij Abby" "Pete" "Cyclops"
The chief of the staff is called Belle;
Her worries no mortal can tell.
Though she frets o 'er the ' ' stuff, ' '
There 's no sign of a huff
From the one who is always a Belle.
Editor-in-Chief I'HE Battlefield
President Richmond Club, 1911-12-13
Business Manager Dramatic Club, 1911-12
Dramatic Club, 1912-13
Secretary Woodrow Wilson Literary Society,
1911-12-13
Cynic's Club, 1912-13
Membership Committee Y. W. C. A., 1911-12-13
THE BATTLEFIELD
ELLEN PAULINE PERRY
Fredericksburg, Virginia
' ' Polly ' '
There is a young lady named Perry
Who always seems happy and merry,
When it comes to her books,
One can tell by her looks,
She's as clever and bright as she's cheery.
Secretary Eussell Literary Society, 1911-12-13
JULLA. ANNA RAIFORD
Ivor, Virginia
I know a young lady, a Quaker,
And nothing else you could make her;
You'll think it peculiar
When I tell you it's Julia.
For anything else you might take her.
Vice-President Y. W. C. A., 1911-12
Glee Club, 1911-12-13
Double Quartette, a911-12-13
Woodrow Wilson Literary Society, 1911-12-13
VERNA LAURIE ROOKS
Cheriton, Virginia
" Hoolsie"
One maid, fair and sweet, is named Rooks;
.She may not be too fond of her books;
But the first year Field Day
Saw her Queen of the May,
And she is a real queen in her looks.
Cotillion Club, 1912-13
Glee Club, 1911-12-13
Senior Basketball Team, 1912-13
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BERTHA LUMBAKD SCRIMGER
Sharps, Virginia
This maiden would like to be tall,
Tho no one else finds her too small;
She is fond of her books
And is gooti as she looks.
Svirely, Bertha is loved by us all.
Woodrow Wilson Literary, 1911-12-1.3
Down the River Club, 1912-13
Nightingale Club, 1912-13
Membership Committee Y. W. C. A., 1912-13
ETHEL LOUISE TAYLOR
Newport News, Virginia
"Fat," " l!u mplc-'<1 il.<<lin,' ' ' ' Puddie ' '
Ethel Taylor, they say, is ambitious.
If it 's true, may her fate be propitious.
Ill a play she sho^^'s art,
For in one she took part
As a gryphon who looked very vicious.
Assistant Editor-in-Chief The Battlefield
President Glee Club, 1912-13
President Dramatic Club, 1912-13
Treasurer Cotillion Club, 1912-13
Treasurer Dramatic Club, 1911-12
Chairman Bible Study Committee Y. W. C. A.,
1912-13
Glee Club, 1911-12 Cynics' Club, 1912-13
Better-to-Sew My Dear Club, 1912-13
Krokay Klub, 1912-13 Anti-Crush Club, 1912-13
Tennis Club, 1911-12-13
Woodrow Wilson Literary Society, 1911-12-13
Bible Study Committee Y. W. C. A., 1911-12
Basketball Team, 1911-12-13
ELIZABETH DOROTHY TRIBLE
Dunnsville, Virginia
' ' Betsy ' '
Here comes Betsy, the dear little lass;
She's the prettiest girl in her class;
She can dance like a fairy.
But she 's not a bit airy.
Nor fond of her own looking-glass.
Glee Club, 1911-12-13
"Happy Dozen, "1912-13
Tennis Club, 1911-12-13
Krokay Klub, 1912-13
Russell Literary Society, 1911-12-13
Cotillion Club, 1912-13.
Mother Goose Club, 1912-13
THE BATTLEFIELD
WINNIE DAVIS WALKER 11 2
Urbanna, Virginia
"Dec"
There is a young lady called ' ' Dee ; ' '
The girls think few so pretty as she.
O 'er the floor she can glide
Like a fair stately bride.
' ' May ' ' no harm ever ' ' Hurt ' ' our sweet ' ' Dee. ' '
Secretary-Treasurer Russell Literary Society,1911-
12-13
Secretary Cotillion Club, 1912-13
Secretary-Treasurer Tennis Club, 1911-12-13
Glee Club, 1911-12-13
Down the River Club, 1912-13
"Happy Dozen," 1912-13
Pi Sigma
Rifle Club, 1912-13
ANNE LATANE WARE <I>
Ware's Wliarf, Virginia
Anne Latane 's also named Ware;
Her complexion is creamy and fair.
She teaches so well
That her praise we must tell;
And she has the most lovely red hair.
Treasurer Dramatic Club, 1912-13
Glee Club, 1911-12-13
Quartette. 1911-12-13
Trio, 1912-13
"Hqjipy Dozen," 1912-13
Russ(^rLiterary Society, 1911-12-13
Tennis Club, 1911-12-13
VIRGINIA ISABEL WILLIS
Lignum, Virginia
' 'Sam''
Isabel is more often called "Sam;"
You'd think her as meek as a lamb;
But this is not right,
For often by night
Are heard shrieks from the meek, little ' ' Sam. '
Wit Editor The Battlefield
Class Basketball Team, 1911-12-13
President Red Headed Club, 1912-13
Woodrow Wilson Literary Society, 1911-12-13
Y. W. C. A., 1911-12-13
Tennis Club, 1911-12-13
Dramatic Club, 1911-12-13
Cotillion Club. 1912-13
Better-to-Sew My Dear Club, 1912-13
Rifle Club, 1912-13
Glee Club, 1911-12-13
Cynics' Club
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GAY VAUGHAN WILSON
Richmond, Virginia
" Gaybell," "Little Wilson," "Jeff"
There is a young lady called Gay;
No matter how busy the day,
She always finds leisure
And thinks it a pleasure
To work for Y. W. C. A.
Business Manager, The Battlefield
President Y. W. C. A., 1911-12-13
Vice-President Class, 1911-12
Dramatic Club, 1911-12-13
Glee Club, 1911-12-13
Double Quartette, 1911-12-13
Censor Eichmond Club, 1911-12
Eichmond Club, 1912-13
Woodrow Wilson Literary Society, 1911-12
MARY ISABELLA WORTHAM
Chase City, Virginia
"Angel," " Bcllum," "Little Aihy"
Last in order comes Isabel Wortham.
She has friends — I could help you unearth 'em,
Who are fond of her ways
And are warm in her praise —
I assure j'ou that she is well worth 'em.
Treasurer Tennis Club, 1911-12-13
Treasurer Woodrow Wilson Literary
1911-12-13
Leader Nighting&les, 1912-13
Dramatic Club, 1912-13
Tennis Club, 1911-12-13
Cynics' Club, 1912-13
Anti-Crush Club, 1912-13
Better-to-Sew My Dear Club, 1912-13
Krokay Klub, 1912-13
Society,
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School History
Away on a hill from the city surrounding us
That it might not hear all our racket and fuss,
There sprang into prominence, as if bj' might,
Our noble school, may it climb to Fame 's height.
N a bright and glorious day toward the close of September,
nineteen hundred eleven, the doors of our Normal school
swung open to receive — what? Girls, who had left their
homes in this and other states, to come here, with the
purpose of gaining a little more of the world's knowl-
edge.
We would not mention the tears shed the tirst weeks ;
for had they continued, we are afraid we would have
been washed away and not one of us would have been
left to tell the tale. But such things soon passed, and
bright and smiling faces were soon to be seen here and
there, and laughter and merriment began to ring through
the halls.
As we had, as soon as might be, to furl on high our colors, naturally the
question was raised, "What shall our colors be?" We looked about us and
beheld the rich orange and brown of the autumn leaves. The beautiful blue
of the sky and green of the cedar on which our eyes rested daily, gave a lovely
inspiration. Other color combinations were suggested and the rooms were
trimmed with the colors, that we might gaze on their beauty and thus determine
their value. On the day of the election we assembled en masse to make our
choice. Ballot after ballot was cast, each time making one less for the final
struggle. Finally a mighty cheer arose as the blue and green stood alone.
Now and evermore our pins shall carry our colors and a cheer shall be given
when our eyes behold the two together. They mean twice as much to us who
took part on that memorable day in the selection of the Fredericksburg Normal
colors.
On October thirty-first, nineteen eleven, strange and mysterious sights
were seen; for ghosts put in their appearance. I fear the school itself would
have liked to have a voice and speak. Her lights went out at one time and only
by the tiny candle's ray were we able to partake of supper. Later strange
looking people walked around the campus and through the building. Did any
stay up until midnight to know whether ' ' Fate ' ' would be kind to them or not ?
We are not prepared to say — what do you think?
On the last Thursday of November as is alwajs the custom, we had a
welcome holiday. Some decided they did not wish to keep company with us
and so sped to their homes : but a fine time was in store for those who remained.
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As the clock struck six, a gay crowd entered the dining room to enjoy a delicious
dinner. Afterwards there was music to wMle away the time.
One evening the ' ' to-be Seniors, ' ' tired of a Friday night with nothing to
do, had as their guests the Faculty.
The eleventh month, of the year nineteen eleven, witnessed the birth of
the Young Woman's Christian Association.
It was not long before the girls had in view some happy days to be, for
Christmas was approaching. Such smiling faces were never before seen, and by
the twentieth of December, this building felt rather lonesome.
The New Year came in and on the second we tried to settle down to
studies. How far we succeeded is unknown.
Then came a winter the like of which we had not seen for years. The
Rappahannock was frozen over, and gay skating parties had merry times on the
ice. There was plenty of coasting and sleighing and such winter sports as are
not possible very often.
Finally came a night when the F'aculty saw themselves as the students
saw them. The instructors laughed good naturedly as they saw themselves
appear.
Very soon the days of Commencement drew near — we spent one evening
with the Masters of Art and of Music, feasting our eyes on pictures which could
almost speak and listening to beautiful melodies. On Sunday, June ninth. Dr.
James from Richmond preached the baccalaureate sermon, and on the next
evening, seven students received certificates amid enthusiasm and flowers.
Then came the time when there must be a parting. Glancing back, the first
year of our Normal brings pleasant memories which we only hope M'ill be
increased in numljer as the years roll on.
Ruth Helen Lord.
A School Song
Tune : The Orange and the Black.
When the stealthy darkness gathers The mighty lamp of knowledge
And all the ways are dim. Can turn error's night to day;
Across the misty valley The lamps of faith and courage
There cometh unto him Drive fear's dark clouds away;
Who in the shadows walketh. Purity and truth and goodness
A radiance, clear and bright. Shine amid sin 's blackest night.
Whence, cheer and comfort giving. May each girl who leaves us carry,
Shineth forth our Normal light. As she goes, such blessed light.
Class Prophecy
Hear ye the words of the prophet!
I drank of the waters of forgetfulness, and gazing into the crystal,
beheld the fate of many people.
A city, teeming with its millions, spread before me on every side evidences
of happiness and prosperity. Such had been the case since the end of the
revolution when Gay Wilson was inaugurated President of the United States.
With the aid of her cabinet she restored order and was now bringing about a
Utopian condition unequalled even during the term, fifteen years before, of
her noted relative, Woodrow Wilson. Margaret Nicholas occupied the chair
of Secretary of Indignation Meetings; Ruth Lord, Secretary of Husband
Regulation ; Ethel Taylor, Director of Day Nurseries ; Helen Daniel, Secretary
of Parcel Post. Presidentress Wilson had tried to secure for the Cabinet the
services of K. Bartenstein and L. Broaddus, two of her former classmates ; but
Miss Bartenstein refused to leave her music by which she had so long been
swaying the hearts of her countrymen. Miss Broaddus had decided to rest on
the laurels she had won in the World's Marathon contests. Rumor whispered
that the honor of laureate of America would be offered to Elsie Coleman, who
hsd so fittingly celebrated these victories in verse.
The "Man's Rights Magazine," edited by Buford Lyne, and the "Woman's
Rights Magazine," edited by Belle Pearce, had so far forgotten their long
standing feud as to unite in their efforts to place G. Wilson in the presidential
chair.
Among the wonderful buildings of this city, one, equipped with all the
inventions of modern science, was devoted to the care of all Normal school
students who, worn out by long years of struggling to beat knowledge into dull
brains, had become dangerously insane or hopelessly melancholy. Sallie Norris
mercifully cared for these. The institution had been endowed by Verna Rooks,
whose marriage to a multimillionaire made possible such generosity.
In another large building I saw a tall and stately lady with beautiful
complexion and prematurely grey hair, conducting a select school for young
ladies. It took me some time to recognize her as my old friend, Winnie Walker.
A sprightly crowd attracted my attention, and looking, I beheld an army
of modern Amazons prepared for war. General Julia Raiford presented a
striking appearance at the head of the coliuun, driving a combination aeroplane
and motorcycle. On one side rode her two adjutants, Fanny and Lucy Kennedy,
on simpler machines of modern invention.
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T H t: K A T T L K F I E L D
When the cohunn moved, a very different scene took its place in the
crystal. I beheld a luxurious room, lighted by the burning logs in an old
fashioned fire plate. Several healthy and happy children played round a young
matron whose husband sat near by watching the picture. The center of this
domestic scene was Nell Henry. In spite of her wonderful success as a teacher
of first grade, she had been persuaded that teaching was after all not her true
calling.
And now I beheld an enormous Woman's University. There I saw
several familiar faces. Julia Keaton was instructing in art, Bertha Scrimger
in manual training, and Anne Latane Ware in music. Mrs. Bunkley I saw at
the head of the great correspondence department, engaged in disseminating
knowledge throughout the country. Anna Diedricli had proved an efficient
assistant in this work.
A perfect scliool system existed in the city which now showed itself in
the crystal. Superintendent Pauline Perry had put into practice here the
theories advanced by the noted authorities, B. Y. Tyner and Virginia Stone.
Her work had been shared for a short time by Annie Nicholas, but the latter had
married a learned professor and withdrawn from active labor in educational
lines.
The perfect sanitary conditions of the school were due to the efforts of
a noted physician, the husband of Alice Chilton.
In this same city I saw the Willis orchestra, conducted by Isabel Willis,
charming multitudes with the latest compositions of Bartenstein.
Now I learned the sad fate of Elizabeth Billingsley. She had had a
desperate love affair which turned out badly, and she retired to a convent,
hoping thus to ease her broken heart and to forget.
I turned from this unhappy countenance to a far In'igliter one, Ora
Green, the president of an agricultural college which had made valuable dis-
coveries for the rural population of the country.
Contributions in a scientific line had been made by Isabella Wortham,
who advanced astonishing theories on evolution, and to the religious world by
Elizabeth Trible, lately entered into the ministry.
Of interest also in the religious world was the depai'ture from her native
shore of Nettie Corbin Marye. She was bound to the South Pole to Christianize
the inhabitants of that continent so recently discovered.
A peculiar object appeared in the crystal. It was the latest model of
Eero-submarine. Marj^ Chesley in appropriate costume was about to mount
this machine wlien with a loud explosion the crystal burst into a thousand
pieces. Helen Lane Daniel.
THE BATTLEFIELD
Class of 1914
Motto :The gates are ours to open
Colors : Orange and Brown
Flower : Brown-eyed Susan
Class Officers
JUNIA GRAVES President
SUE WALKER Vice-President
NELL FORD Secretary
MYRTIS TANKARD Treasurer
GRAPIAM MASTIN Class Editor
AGNES JAMES Historian
Class Roll
Mary Ella Aeree
Carrie Maxwell Acree
Beatrice Louise Ashley
Iva Celeste Beachboard
Angle Haig Bray
Isla Catherine Brizendine
Lucile Lj'ell Broun
Lois Nita Burroughs
Mary Lindsay Carey
Ruth Elmore Clarkson
Belle Pollard Curlis
Azele Curtis
Jessie Gatewood Daffan
Mary Christine Deierhoi
Mary Waggener Donnally
Alice Leah Finney
Martha Pollard Fleet
Nell Broughton Ford
Helen Campbell Gardener
Jane Little Garth
Junia Graves
Jean Fisher Graves
Flora McFaden Hill
Ella Garnett Hoskins
Agnes Christian James
Mary Warner Johnson
Frances Marian Jones
Emma Woodson Laukford
Julia Louise Lewis
Mary Graham Mastin
Ethel Nash
Pawling Nelms
Nannie Cunningham Oliver
Nannie Waller Parker
Rachel Ray Pearce
Lelia Mae Perrin
Helen Cabell Phillips
Ruth Anita Post
Katheryne Gresham Rice
Lucy Gray Richardson
Sallye Roberts
Annie Louise Scott
Kathleen Holt Scott
Sarah Temple Segar
Mary Selden Snead
Myrtis Garrison Tankard
Eloise Heath Towill
Clara Louise von Hofsten
Susan Dabney Walker
Catherine Elizabeth Ware
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Class of 1915
Motto : "Not failure, but low aim is crime." Colors: Green and White
Class Song: "How Can I Leave Thee?" Flower: White Rose.
Class Officers
MAUDE SEAY President
JOYCE BRADFORD Vice-President
LOUISE BURKE Secretary-Treasurer
ALMA RAIFORD Athletic Representative
ELIZABETH CHENERY Class Editor
MURIEL BARBER Historian
Class Roll
Muriel Barber Alma Raiford
Joyce Bradford Charlotte Rice
Soph Brooking Elizabeth Smith
Louise Burke Sarah Burke Spindle
Elizabeth Chenery ilaude Seay
Mary Temple Coleman
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Motto : Excelsior.
Class of 1916
Colors : Gold and White.
Flower : Daisy.
Class Officers
EUTH CARTER President
GRACE EDWARDS Vice-President
ANNE HARRIS Secretary
ETTA DAVIS Treasurer
ELIZA PEIRCE Editor
NELL HOLLADAY Historian
Class Roll
Edna Arnold
Leah Arnold
Grace Beazley
Virginia Bolen
Virginia Boxley
Ettinette Broaddns
Nannie Page Bnrrus
Ruth Carter
Ula Cluverius
Mary Lin Coleman
Jennie Cowell
Etta Davis
Addie Duff
Grace Edwards
Merle Garrett
Elizabeth Gordon
Lilian Haislip
Arnie Harris
Louise Henley
Nell Holladay
Mae Hurt
Waverley Lawson
Belle Liuthicum
Helen Munro
Clara Morgan
Eliza Peiree
Jane Pitts
Ethel Robinson
Virginia Saunders
Bertha Scott
Sex Smith
FIRST YEAR
UIMKNOryN PERIL 5 /\VyAITTh[M!!!
THE BATTLEFIELD
Class of 1917
Motto : Prosperity is our watchword. Colors: Lavender aud White.
Flower : Violet.
Officers
RUTH WICKHAM President
COLUMBIA BORUM Vice-President
EMMA LAWLESS Secretary
EARLE CARTER Treasurer
EMMA LAWLESS Class Editor
Class Boll
Mary Andrews
Lelia Babcock
Callie Bailey
Abbie. Ballard
Effie Ballard
Lueile Boggs
Columljia Boruni
Earle Carter
Lemira Carter
Bertie Cralle
Virginia Parinholt
Janetta Fitzhugh
Annie Poster
Marion Harris
Ora Harris
Lena Hicks
Genevieve Jenkins
Bessie Jesse
Mary Kendall
Emma Lawless
Lillie Lee Miehie
Mary Moncure
Ada Nash
Hannah Pyke
Nita Pyke
Margaret Reamy
Pattie Lee Richards
Moody Schools
Lois Shuman
Ethel Smith
Marion Sonthall
Josephine Spindle
Rnth Thomas
Lillian Waring
Rutli Wiekham
Russell Yowell
THE BATTLEFIELD
Class of 1918
Motto : ' ' We are ever striving for the highest. ' '
Colors : Gold and Black. Flower: Black Eyed Susan.
Yell
Rah ! Rah ! Rah !
Who are we ?
We're the Preps,
Of 19, 1 and 3.
LAURA SMITH President
LOUISE COSBY Vice-President
LUCY PAYNE Secretary-Treasurer
VIRGINIA GORDON Athletic Representative
ETHEL BULLOCK Class Editor
Class Roll
Elsie Broaddus Rnliy Paulconer Pearl Lucas
Ethel Bullock Lula French Fannie Nance
Rosa Burruss ' Virginia Gordon Lucy Payne
Louise Cosby Mary Griffin Laura Smith
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The Kindness Man
HE Are burned low in the grate ; a tiny flicker now and then
showed still a faint attempt to keep alive. The room was very
cjuiet, and only the fitful breathing of the sick man broke the
stillness.
A woman with wide, sleepless eyes sat by the bed, a
woman whose hair was sprinkled with gray, and whose hands
were roughened with toil. It was his mother.
By and bj' a nurse, immaculate in white cap and uni-
form, came to the door and looked in, and as silently withdrew.
The night passed slowly ; the doctor came and went, and then came again,
for this night would decide whether the man would live or die.
Towards morning the nurse came on duty, and the woman rose and left
the room. Outside, under the quiet stars, she fought her battle. The doctors
had said that if her son lived, his mind would be a wreck, and that he would
remember nothing of his previous life. There, beneath the stars, which were
looking down so brightly through the leafless trees, his mother prayed that God
would take his life. Then she caught her breath with a dry sob; could she
endure it, her first born, her only son?
"No!" she cried, "Oh, God, save my boy."
As she entered the room, the ashes in the grate fell together with a dull
thud. The sound seemed to arouse the man, for he stirred uneasily, opened his
eyes, and then turned over and fell into a natural sleep.
' ' He will live, ' ' the doctor said briefly.
He was pronounced quite harmless, and after a while people became
accustomed to seeing him upon their streets. The children even, forgot to run
when lie appeared, and ceased to fear the eyes which looked at them so kindly.
Poor fellow ! It was as the doctors had said, and not even the memory
of his name was left. At first he inquired often what it was, but when they
told him, he always shook his head sadly, and said :
' ' No, that is not right. I never heard that name before. ' '
One day when he came home, he seemed strangely stirred. It was as if
some revelation had been given him.
' ' I know my name at last, ' ' he said quietly, with shining eyes. But when
his mother questioned him, nothing could induce him to tell what it was, only
that it was not the name which she tried to call him.
When he passed a group of children playing in the street, his hand was
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raised, as in benediction, and when people saw it they felt a touch of awe at his
simple manner and uplifted face.
From that time on he was possessed with a strange fancy ; he seemed to
have almost a mania for performing any service which he deemed helpful to
man or beast. His face came to have a high, exalted look, and a few of the
more thoughtful folk of the village wondered sometimes whom he was personify-
ing, for he never asked his name nowadays ; or told it either, for that matter,
for when money was offered him in return for the help he gave, a troubled look
would cross his face, as he replied quickly :
"No, no, I cannot take it. I do it because I . " And that was as far
as he ever got, and no amount of questioning ever drew from him anything
further.
The place he called home became the refuge for all the stray or afflicted
animals of the neighborhood. By and by, the children gave him a beautiful
name. They called him "The Kindness Man," and somehow it stuck to him.
******
Years passed away, and his was still a familiar figure in the streets of
the town. The little woman who was his mother, had long since become only
a memory. The hair about his temples was white now, and his form not so
erect as of old.
A new generation of children loved their Kindness Man in these days,
and a new set of strays and waifs shared his quarters. These were his friends.
And then there came a day when the village was in great peril, and
through what seemed a miracle, it was the hand of the Kindness Man which
saved them from the danger.
As he lay there in the moonlight with upturned face, when they found
him, one hand was raised as in benediction, and while they crowded weeping
around his torn and mangled body, a dog slipped through the crowd and licked
his cold face.
They laid him to rest in the quiet cemetery by the lake, and the hemlocks
which waved over him, seemed to whisper in their branches:
"The Kindness Man; the Kindness Man."
That night a little girl said to her mother :
"I wonder who he thought he was." And her mother answered:
"We will never know." But the pines and the hemlocks murmured
softly :
"We know, we know," and bent very low, as if they too, loved the
Kindness Man.
JuNiA Graves.
THE BATTLEFIELD
One of Jack Porter's Escapes
It was in the very hottest part of the war. The Northern soldiers passed
back and forth continually by the little cottage in which Mrs. Porter lived.
There was a full Northern regiment encamped near bj^ which was trying to iind
the whereabouts of the Southern troops, but had so far tried in vain. They
had found out, however, that Mrs. Porter was very ill and that she was the
mother of Jack Porter, the most valuable and daring scout that Longstreet had.
They also had an idea that Longstreet was somewhere within a radius of ten
miles but could discover nothing more. So they kept secret but intent watch
on the little white cottage day and night.
It was now Monday evening and Mrs. Porter had sent for her son on
Saturday, almost wishing he would not come, and yet longing to see him and
know that all was well. The evening wore into twilight, and twilight into
night and night had worn into morning when Jack appeared.
He, of course, could only stay one hour and even then the danger was
trebled every minute. In his anxiety about his mother's condition, Jack had
almost forgotten that the Federals were the nearest neighbors, and that he sus-
pected they were watching for him. He was almost deciding that he would
stay half an hour longer, when the maid, Lucy, came rushing up declaring that
the yard was full of "Yankee" soldiers and that an officer was talking to old
Aunt Liza on the porch.
Then Aunt Liza came up in a terrible state of agitation, saying that the
officer had found out that Jack was in the house ; that he would give him a
quarter of an hour in which to give himself up, as he did not wish to search the
house in consideration of Mrs. Porter's condition; but that after that time had
elapsed the house would be searched from garret to cellar.
There was certainly not a moment to lose, because, in spite of Aunt Liza's
protestations, that young marster hadn't never been there, the officer was sure
of his game and was determined to carry out his search. Of course, there was
no place in which Jack could hide in such a small house and no hope of help
from the comrades so nearby, as they were greatly inferior in number to the
Federals. If he could not get off from the house inside of fifteen minutes, there
was nothing ahead of him but the gallows. But Jack wasn't to be so easily
stumped by a big bunch of Yankees whom he had been perplexing for a good
while, and who didn't know anything about how to catch a smart Rebel. So
the first thing Aunt Liza knew, she was stuffing "young marster" out with
pillows, blacking his face and dressing him in her own clothes.
It was all done inside of ten minutes and Jack, bonneted and remodeled
after the image of Aunt Liza, was downstairs with the water bucket going to
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the spring through the dim morning light, as the good old mammy always did
before getting breakfast.
When the Federal officer made his search, naturally it was in vain and
he had to go away unsuccessful. As the real mammy went to the spring really
to get water, she said, "Thank de Lawd, I goes to de spring 'bout dis time
ebery mawnin. "
Nell Holladay.
"The Rising Bell"
Come, children, listen to my song.
This is the tale I have to tell ;
It 's all about an awful wrong
We 've suffered from the rising bell.
There is a sound at break of day,
A sound that almost makes us yell;
Because it drives our dreams away.
We know it is the rising bell.
The maid stops just outside each door
To wake the girls ; she rings it well.
Until we wish to hear no more
The peals of that loud rising bell.
But when the parting time draws near,
It makes us sad to say farewell.
To leave the girls now grown so dear.
And no more hear the rising bell.
ViEGiNL\ Franklin Bolen.
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THE BATTLEFIELD
Y. W. C. A. Cabinet
Mary Acree
Beatrice Ashley
Lelia Babcock
Callie Bailey
Katharine Bartenstein
Iva Beachboard
Grace Beazley
Lueile Boggs
Virginia Bolen
Virginia Boxley
Joyce Bradford
Lottie Broaddns
Soph Brooking
Lueile Broun
Mattie H. Bunkley
Rosa Burruss
Nannie Page Burruss
Ruth Carter
Mary Chesley
Alice Chilton
Ruth Clarkson
Ula Cluverius
Elsie Coleman
Bertie Cralle
Helen Daniel
Etta Davis
Mary Deierhoi
Mary Donually
Grace Edwards
Virginia Farinholt
Alice Finney
Nell Ford
Bessie Foster
Lula French
Helen Gardiner
Merle Garrett
Jane Garth
Florence Graves
Jean Graves
Junia Graves
Ora Green
Anne Harris
Ora Harris
Louise Henley
Clara von Hofsten
Agnes James
Members
Ruth Lord
Buford Lyne
Graham Mastin
Helen Monroe
Louise Motley
Fanny Nance
Annie Nicholas
Sex Smith
Mary Snead
Marion Southall
Myrtis Tankard
Ethel Taylor
Elizabeth Trible
Anne Latane Ware
Margaret Nicholas Roberta Washington
Nannie Oliver
Lucy Payne
May Payne
Belle Pearce
Rachel Pearce
Eliza Pierce
Ruth Post
Alma Raiford
Julia Raiford
Margaret Reamy
Latane Rice
Maude Seay
Mary Warner Johnson Moody Schools
Julia Keaton
Mary Kendall
Emma Lankford
Waverly Lawson
Louise Lewis
Lois Shuman
Bertha Scott
Kathleen Scott
Bertha Scrimger
Sara Temple Segar
Sue Walker
Ruth Wickham
Isabel Willis
Gay Wilson
Russell Yowell
Annie I. Anthony
Marion C. Forbes
Cary Graves
Olive M. Hinman
Mrs. W. N. Hamlet
Virginia Stone
Frances L. Withers
W. N. Hamlet
Gunj'on M. Harrison
E. H. Russell
Virginia M. Goolrick
THE BATTLEFIELD
Y. W. C. A. History
M
HROUGH the efforts of Miss Gary Graves, we had with us in
October, 1911, Miss Claris Crane, our Territorial Secretary
of Y. W. C. A. work. At this time, she presided over a meet-
ing of the students and faculty of the school, to elect tempo-
rary officers for the establishment of a Young Woman's
Christian Association. On November 28th, the Constitution
of the Y. W. C. A. was drawn up and the permanent officers
were elected as follows : Gay Wilson, president ; Julia Raiford, vice-president ;
Marguerite Dowden, secretary ; Annie Nicholas, treasurer. Soon after this, the
Chairmen and members of the various committees were chosen, and the work
progressed rapidly from this time.
Our first participation in the National work of the Y. W. C. A. was the
observance of the week of Prayer in November ; our first attempt to raise money
for the carrying on of the work was made by giving a Christmas Bazaar, which
was very successful ; our first public function was a reception given in January
to the school. This was largely attended and enjoyed by all. Many other small
entertainments were given through the year, such as monthly birthday parties
and a Martha Washington Party. In May, a Mock Faculty Meeting was given,
to the enjoyment of many, and the proceeds from this went to increase the general
fund.
The Sytstematic Giving Plan, which has been carried on very successfully,
was introduced about this time; the money obtained in this way was donated
to the cause of home and foreign missions.
During the winter, our president started the Morning Watch meetings,
which many of us found to satisfy a long-felt need. Along with this, were
started three Mission study classes, and Bible classes, one of which was taught
by a student.
In March, two of our number were sent as representatives to the State
Y. W. C. A. Conference at Lynchburg, where they received much encouragement
and inspiration to bring back to their fellow-workers. In April, a large delega-
tion of girls attended the Student Volunteer Conference in Richmond — indeed
our school had the largest representation of any girls ' school there.
One of the especial objects of our j'car's work, was ralized when we
obtained one of the nicest rooms in Russell Hall for a Y, W. C. A. room, in
which to hold our weekly meetings, cabinet meetings and small entertainments.
We lost no time in furnishing this room with an attractive center table and
set of chairs, a rug and window curtains, in order to make it a pleasant meeting
place for the girls during the day.
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In April, the new oiBcers were elected, and plans were made at once
for the work of the coming year.
With the opening of school in September, we were all on hand, ready
and eager to begin, with the hope of making as successful a year in every way as
was in our power.
We raised the membership in proportion to the increased number of
pupils enrolled; we doubled our budget; and established Bible and Mission
classes, in addition to two Normal training classes, which have been
very helpful to all who have entered them. We devoted our foreign missionary
money to Miss Guitna's work in India, and with the home missionary money
we have established a scholarship in the school, to aid needy girls in obtaining
an education which they might be unable to secure without help.
As this year draws to a close, and our term of office expires, we feel that
we have not done this work to the extent of our ability. We wish that we could
do it over and do it better ; but as this is impossible, let us remember, as we go
out into the world to enter a larger field of work, where opportunities are more
numerous and the need is greater, to take hold of every opportunity as it comes
to us, and do our best with it, for only in this way can we feel that we have done
what we could.
Katii-vrine B.\rtenstein.
ATHLETICS
l^.W'CKhAM
Athletic Association
Officers
LOTTIE BROADDUS President
SEX SMITH Vice-President
MARY WARNER JOHNSON Secretary
RUTH CARTER Treasurer
Members
Student Body
Winners of Basketball Monograms
Myrtis Tankard '14 Ella Garnett Hoskins '14 Lottie Broaddus '13
Sex Smith '15 Bertha Scott '16 Mary Siiead '14
Virginia Bolen '16 Sallye Roberts '14
Lucy Gray Richardson '14 Mary Warner Johnson '14
Advisorij Committee
William N. Hamlet Olive M. Hinman Gunyon M. Harrison
Gary Graves Annie I. Anthony
Yells Songs
1. 1.
Rub-a-d-dub! Tune — Washington and Lee Swing.
Rub-a-d-dub ! When the S. N. S. girls fall in line,
Put the other team under the tub They're sure to win a game this very
Tickle the tub ! time.
Tickle the tub ! With every throw the ball does make
Rad— Rah— Rah! a score,
2 And we shall yell, yell, yell until our
TTJ! ^ -a ^ jjn, throats are sore,
Rifety, rifety, raff ! . ^ i n ^ w ^ i 4. ^ i ^ *
„, .„ ^ , -J, , , _«. , And we shall right, nght, hght lor
Chiiety, chifety, chaft !
Rifety raff, chifety chaff ; every '
-r j^, . ^, , , , , What does it matter it the other team
Let s give them a horse laugh !
To the old Varsity team we '11 give this
3- yell:
Rah, Rah, green ! Rah, Rah, Rah.
Rah, Rah, blue ! 2.
Get there Normal School ! Tune — Down by the Old Mill Stream.
P. D. Q. Down in the old gym room
^ Where our school team stands,
T-, e. -NT o • 1 With a smile on their faces,
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T,T T ri rn r\ Ty ^^ 1 And the ball m their hands.
V — 1 — L — 1 — U — ii — 1 — !
Watch them how they throw !
^- The}' will win we know !
Cheer, cheer, chou, chou! But bless your soul
Bou, bou, High School ! There goes a goal !
Sausage ! In the old gym room.
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TROPHSr CUP
THE BATTLEFIELD
Spring of 1912
Every one knows that the long fierce struggle in the series of contests was
between the five regular classes as to which would win the "Trophy Cup."
The series of contests consisted of the following events :
Basketball 25 points
Tennis 25 points
Field Day Events 50 points
The field day events included :
Swimming
Standing broad jump
Relay race
Sack race
50-yard dash
Hurdle race
Potato race
Three-legged race
Obstacle Relav Race
After a hard fight the Third Year Class, having won in Basketball and
the highest number of points on Field Dav, triumphantly carried off the "Trophy
Cup."
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THE BATTLEFIELD
Basketball of 1912-13
HE history of the "Varsity Team" was a struggle with the
Fredericksburg High School in a series of three games. The
first game was played November 23, 1912, the score being
20 to 5, in favor of the Varsity. The level-headed playing
and quick pass work were the chief characteristics of the
home team, while the guards on the High School were not to
lie surpassed. At no stage of the game was the result in
doubt ; but the plucky sextet from Fredericksburg High School
showed themselves game to the core.
The second game was played December 18, 1912, with a score, 14 to 7, in
favor of Normal School. This game was very brilliant, full of interest and
tension and excited the admiration of every one.
Defeat did not seem to affect the Fredericksburg High School rooters,
for they cheered the defeated team just as long, and just as loudly as if they
had been victorious.
The Varsity Team with palpitating hearts and high hopes won the last
of the series of three games with the Fredericksburg High School which was
played March 1, 1913. Our very souls thrill now with the recollection of that
game. The vast crowd watched with breathless and intense silence the play of
the ball across the courts. At the end of the first half the score was 7 to 4 in
favor of Varsity. During the second half it seemed that an electric shock
passed over the plaj'ers. The ball shot like lightning from center into the
Varsity goal. Not a single field goal was made by the visiting team, but their
free throws were beautiful to see. The ball passed from center down to the
Fredericksburg High School goal, but alas! the whistle blew which was like a
death knell to their hopes, the score being 19 to 4 in favor of the Varsity Team.
THE BATTLEFIELD
Our Varsity Team
N days of old our warriors bold
To honors great aspired;
But iu our day, the maideus play
For garlands they've admired.
Upon the field they never yield
The game that should be theirs ;
Tho' many fall in basketball,
For this no athlete cares.
So, on our team we ever beam,
And loud their praise we sound,
' ' The Normal ball will never fall
While the Varsity Team 's around. ' '
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Krokay Klub
Constitution : Every body iiuist play all the time.
By-Law: No game shall lie played without the presence of Mrs. Chandler.
Chief Occupation : Knocking.
Colors: Red, l)lne, green, black, yellow, orange, brown and pink.
Motto : If at first you don 't succeed, try, try again.
APPLIED TITLES
She plays all the time — Mrs. Chandler.
Chief pusher — Catharine Ware.
First ass'stant chief pusher — Bertie Cralle.
' ' Save the wicket ' ' — Mary Gary.
"Where is my ball?" — Mary Snead.
She believes in separating partners — Ella Garnett Hoskins.
Always roving — Bertha Scott.
Sometimes makes a wicket — Clara Morgan.
Rail ! Rah ! for Krokay — Olive Hinman.
Speaks gently in German when she misses a wicket — Eliza Pierce.
"Don't separate us" — Ethel Taylor and Belle AVortham.
"Please don't send me away" — Waverly Lawson.
A sure hitter — Helen Gardiner.
"Don't send my ball away" — Lucile Brown.
Never breaks rules — Emma Lankford.
Never dead on balls — Nannie W. Parker.
Famous \\ire striker — Fanny Nance.
"Oh! that's awful" — ITla Cluverins.
Always over boundary line — Mary L. C^oleman.
"Roll, old ball" — Lillian Haislip.
Gives her ball a lift occasionally — Soph Brooking.
"I can play with one hand" — Betsy Trible.
"I must become a rover" — Ruth Clarkson.
"Good eye" — Kathleen Scott.
THE BATTLEFIELD
Walking Clubs
JUNIA GRAVES '. President
GRACE EDWARDS Secretary and Treasurer
MISS GRAVES Honorary Member
Motto : ' ' Keep a-going ' ' Colors : Road red and grass green
Flcaver: Running eetlar.
THE GLOBE TROTTERS THE SPORTS
SALLYE ROBERTS Leader ' 'LAEA VON HOFSTEN .Leader
MR. HARRISON Honorary Member MR. HAMLET Honorary Member
3Jcmhcrs Members
Angie Bray Sue Wallcer Edna Arnold Genevieve Jenluns
Agnes James Maude Seay Leah Arnold Mary Kendall
Joyce Bradford Mary Warner Johnson Lelia Babcock Mae Perriu
Myrtis Tankard Lillian Haislip Isla Brizendine Pattie Lee Ricdiards
Jean Graves Eloise Towill Nannie Page Burruss Lucy Grey Richardson
Nell Ford Mary Deierhoi Belle Curlis Anna Scott
Nannie Oliver Emma Lankford Helen Gar<liner Marian Southall
Margaret Reaniy Alice Finney Ora Harris Lillian Waring
Junia Graves Lena Hicks Lila Williams
THE GREEN WALKING CLUB
THE POST WALKING (JLUB
ORA GREEN Leader
MISS ANTHONY Honorary Membek
RTTTH POST Leader
MISS JACKSON Honorary Member
Members
Jlembers
Ruth Carter
Earle Carter
Ruth Thomas
Jennie Cowell
Lois Shunian
Callie Bailey
Eloise Towill
Grace Beazlcy
Moody Schules
Marian Jones
Beatrice Ashley
Lottie Broaddus
Columbia Borum
Iva Beachboard
Bertie C'ralle
Louise Cosby
Grace Edwards
Merle Garrett
Helen Munro
Ada Nash
Jane Pitts
Ruth Wiekham
THE BATTLEFIELD
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Officers
ETHEL TAYLOR President
KATHARL\E DARTENSTEIN Vice-President
RUTH LORD Secretary
KATHLEEN SCOTT Treasurer
MFSS FRASER Director
KATHARLNE BARTENSTEIN Accompanist
31 embers
Mary Aeree Anna Diedrieh Einnia Lawless Maude Seay
Maxie Acree Mary Deierhoi Ruth Lord Mary Snead
Beatrice Ashley Grace Edwards Mary Monture Slyrtis Tankard
Lucille Boggs Alice Finney Ethel Nash Ethel Taylor
Joyce Bradford Martha Fleet Ada Nash Eloise Towill
Angle Bray Jane Garth Pawling Nelms Clara, von Hofsten
Earle Carter Juuia Graves Margaret Nicholas Winnie Walker
Elizabeth Chenery Jean Graves Nannie Oliver Catherine Ware
Alice ChiHon Lillian Haislip Julia Raiford Ruth Wiekham
Elsie Coleman Nell Holladay ^'erna Rooks Isaliel Willis
Mary Lin Coleman May Hurt Kathleen Scott Gay Wilson
Helen Daniel Mary Warner Johnson Russell Yowell
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THE NIGHTINGALES
THE BATTLEFIELD
The Nightingales
Aim : To outsing the Glee Club.
Favorite Song: "We won't go home till morning."
When we sing best — at midnight.
BELLE WORTHAM Le.vder
Members
Sarah T. Segar, soloist — ' ' Seeing Nellie Home. ' '
Helen Phillips — Sings do, ti, do, with great gusto.
Anne Harris — With a voice so sweet and low.
Julia Keatou— Whoa Mule ! Wanka ! !
Bertha Scrimger — Her voice is like the balililing l)rook.
Charlotte Rice — Is that a Junco we hear?
Margaret Reamy — Little, but loud.
Agnes James — Loo, loo, loo.
Grand Quartette
N. W. Parker, baritone, second part.
Buford Lyne, low soprano, tenor.
Nell Ford, high l)ass.
Agnes James, low bass.
Soloist
Elizabeth Billingsley — "Love's Old Sweet Song."
Qi.intette
Sallie Roberts, mezzo contralto.
Louise Henley, shrill second tenor.
Katherine Rice, diminuendo soprano.
Margaret Reamy, crescendo alto.
Belle Wortham, bass Ijaritone.
The twins: Bertha Scott, Ella Garnett Hoskins — "How Can I Leave Thee."
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BATTLEFIELD
The Russell Literary Society
ALICE CHILTON President
PAULINE PERRY Secretary
WINNIE WALKER Treasurer
Members
Angie Bray Nannie Oliver
Lueile Brown Nannie Waller Parker
Virginia Bolen Eliza Pierce
Joyce Bradford Margaret Reamy
Ruth Clarkson Kathryne Rice
Mary Lin Coleman Charlotte Rice
Mary Deierhoi Sallye Roberts
Nell Ford Mary Snead
Alice Finney Bertha Scott
Martha Fleet . Kathleen Scott
Ora Green Sarah Temple Segar
Ella Garnett Hoskins Myrtis Tankard
Lilian Ilaislip Eloise Towill
Mary Warren Johnson Elizabeth Trible
Agnes James Anne Lataue Ware
Emma Lankford Catharine Ware
Lonise Lewis Winnie Walker
THE BATTLEFIELD
Woodrow Wilson Literary Society
HELEN LANE DANIEL President
BUFORD KIRTLEY L7NE Vice-President
MARTHA BELLE PEARCE Secretary
MARY LSABELLA WORTHAM Treasurer
Members
Beatrice Ashley
Muriel Barber
Katharine Bartenstein
Ira Beachboard
Elizal:)eth Billingsley
Lottie Broaddiis
Soph Brooking
Mattie Bunkley
Elizabeth Chenery
Mary Chesley
Elsie Coleraaii
Helen Daniel
Anna Deidrich
Janetta Pitzhiigh
Jane Garth
Jean Graves
Junia Graves
Lonise Henlev
Nell Holladay
May Hurt
Julia Keaton
Emma Lawless
Buford Lyne
Ruth Lord
Mary Moncure
Ada Nash
Belle Pearce
Ruth Post
-Julia Raiford
Maude Seay
Bertha Serimger
Ethel Taylor
Winnie Walker
Ruth Wickham
Isabel Willis
Belle Wort ham
Marion C. Forbes
Honorary Members
Virginia M. Goolriek
THE BATTLEFIELD
Famous American Illustrators
BEATRICE ASHLEY
MURIEL BARBER
IVA BEACHBOARD
SOPH BROOKING
MARY DONNALLY
HELEN DANIEL
JEAN GRAVES
CLARA VON HOFSTEN
OLIVE M. HINMAN
JULIA KEATON
H. ROBERT MANZ
ADA NASH
NANNIE OLIVER
NANNIE W. PARKER
BERTHA SCRIMGER
WINNIE WALKER
RUTH WICKHAM
ELIZABETH WINN
SORORITIES
THE BATTLEFIELD
Pi Sigma
Founded December, 1911
Colors : Yellow and White. Flower : Daisy
Sororcs in Vrbc
JANETTA FITZHUGH
LAURA McBOWMAN
MARY GRIFFIN
MARGUERITE COLBERT
Sorores
ELIZABETH CIIENERY
HELEN DANIEL
ANNE HENRY
EMMA LAWLESS
LILLIE MICHIE
MARY MONCURE
HANNAH PYKE
NITA PYKE
LAURA SMITH
WINNIE WALKER
AGNES JAME,
THE BATTLEFIELD
Phi
Founded November 27, 1912
Colors: Violet aud Green. Flower: Violet.
Menibei's
ANGIE BRAY ■ JULIA LOUISE LEWIS
ALICE CHILTON SALLYE ROBERTS
MARTHA POLLARD FLEET MYRTIS GARRISON TANKARD
AGNES CHRISTIAN JAMES ANNE LATANE WARE
Patronesses
OLIVE HINMAN FRANCES WITHERS
VIRGINIA STONE
THE BATTLEFIELD
Richmond Club
Motto : ' ' Do, die or bust. ' '
Colors : Royal Purple and Gold.
Flower : Richmond Rose.
Song : ' ' The Lass of Richmond Hill. ' '
Officers
MARTHA BELLE PEARCE President
CLARA LOUISE VON HOFSTEN Vice-President
MARTHA POLLARD FLEET Secretary
RUTH HELEN LORD Treasurer
Membe
Beatrice Louise Ashley
Calphurnia Anna Bailey
Ettienette Hoskius Broaddus
Helen Lane Daniel
Mary Christine Deierhoi
Martha Pollard Fleet
Clara Louise Von Hofsten .
Bertha May Hurt
Ruth Helen Lord
Helen Anna IMunro
Martha Belle Pearce
Rachel Ray Pearce
Gay Vaughan Wilson
THE BATTLEFIELD
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Dramatic Club
Motto : ' ' We can because we can. ' '
Officers
ETHEL TAYLOR President
ALICE CHILTON Vice-President
BUPORD LYNE Secretary
ANNE LATANE WARE Treasurer
KATHARINE BARTENSTEIN Musician
RUTH LORD Business Manager
VIRGINIA M. GOOLRICK Sponsor
GuNYON M. Harrison, Stage Manager.
Members
Katharine Bartenstein Louise Lewis
Laura Bowman Ruth Lord
Angie Bray Buford Lyne
Nita Burroughs Belle Pearce
Mary Chesley Charlotte Rice
Alice Chilton Ethel Taylor
Helen Daniel Anne Latane Ware
Anna Diedrich Ruth Wickham
Martha Fleet Isabel Willis
Ella Garnett Hoskins 6a j' Wilson
Louise Henley Belle Wortham
Emma Lawless Nannie Oliver
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THE BATTLEFIELD
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Down the River Club
Motto : "We Paddle Our Own Canoe." Colors: Sea- foam and Sky-blue.
Flower : Water Lily.
GRACE EDWARDS President
LUCILLE BROWN Vice-President
ALICE CHILTON Secretary and Treasurer
Members
Angle Bray
Lueile Broun
Nita Burroughs
Mary L. Carey
Alice Chilton
Ruth Clarkson
Bertie Cralle
Grace Edwards
Nell Ford
Lillian Haislip
Ella Garnett Hoskins
Agnes James
Waverly Lawsoii
Louise Lewis
Clara E. Morgan
Pawling Nelras
Nannie Oliver
Nannie W. Parker
Eliza Pierce .
Charlotte Rice
Katliryne Rice
Kathleen Scott
Bertha Scrirager
Sarah Temple Segar
Elizabeth Smith
Mary Snead
Eloise Towill
EUzabeth Trible
THE BATTLEFIELD
Caroline Club
Colors: Green and White.
Flower: Arbutus.
Motto : Put off for tomorrow what you can do today.
Aim : To have the mostest fun in the worstest way.
Song: .Take Me Bade to Ole Caroline.
Officeis
LOTTIE BROADDUS President
RUTH CARTER Vice-President
ILA CARTER Secretary
SEX SMITH Treasurer
Blerlihers
Jane Pitts Ethel Smith
Ruth Thomas Lois Shuiuan
Earle Carter Lena Hicks
Honorary Member
A. B. Chandler, Jr.
THE BATTLEFIELD
Hanover Club
Motto : ' ' United we stand, divided we fall. ' '
Flower : Red Peony. Colors : Red and Green
Song : "Dat Watermelon Hanging on de Vine."
Toast: "Here's to the county that we call home,
The happy days when we used to roam
Where the melons sweeten in the summer sun.
And persimmons ripen for winter's fun —
Here's to Hanover.
ELIZABETH CHENERY President
JENNIE COWELL Vice-President
ORA GREEN Secret .vry axd Treasurer
Grace Beazley Mae Perrin
Ada Nash Ruth Wiekham
Flora Hill
THE BATTLEFIELD
House of Lancaster
vvER: Red Rose.
Motto : Vineemiis.
Colors: Red and Green
e: AGNES JAMES
Earl: ELIZA PEIRCE
Count : ALICE CHILTON
Knights
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Nell Ford
Nannie Oliver
Lucile Brouu
Bessie Jesse
Louise Lewis
Eloise To will
THE BATTLEFIELD
King and Queen Court
Colors: Royal Purple and Gold. Flower: Purple Pansy.
Motto : Always ahead.
Members
MAUDE SEAY King
MERLE GARRETT Queen
MAXIE AGREE Herald
MARY TEMPLE COLEMAN Chancellor
LOUISE BURKE Jester to His Ma.jesty
MARY AGREE Officer to His Ma.jesty
MOODY SCHOOLS Executioner to His Ma.jesty
ULA CLUVERIUS Lady op the Court
LUCY GRAY RICHARDSON Gentleman of the Court
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Rifle Club
Names reading from left to right.
Alma Raiford Louise Henley
Virginia Bolen May Hurt
Marian Jones Angle Bray
Mary Andrews Winnie Walker
Joyce Bradford Nell Ford
Mary Lin Coleman Nell Henry
Maud Seay Rachel Pearce
Jessie Daifan Virginia Boxley
Isla Brizendine Ruth Clarkson
Soph Brooking Agnes James
Elsie Coleman Sallye Roberts
Nannie Page Burruss Myrtis Tankard
Fanny Kennedy Charlotte Rice
Mary Chesley Sex Smith
Lucy Gray Rieliardson Virginia Farenholt
Bertie Cralle Ruth Post
Anne Harris Ula Cluverius
Moody Schools Columbia Borum
Organizer — Gunyon Harrison
Expert Rifle Women — Nell Henry, Moody Schools, Elsie Coleman.
Sharpshooters
Sex Smith Ruth Post
Bertie Cralle Virginia Boxley
OBJECT OF THE CLUB
We make no apology whatever for the existence of oiir club. We have
already amply disproven the notion that girls can't shoot. If you could just
see some of our perforated targets with the poor bull's eye shot all to pieces!
Some ignorant girls and more ignorant boys, may taunt us for handling
firearms. They are just jealous because they are too timid or too unsteady to
shoot. But we are the unafraid stutf, and we just love shooting, and shooting
to hit is too lovely for compare. The open out of doore for us all the time !
Our art is as womanly as it is manly. Who knows how protective it may
prove some day? Besides, it gives us steadiness, and courage, and confidence.
All right, fellows, whenever you want protection from ghosts or any other old
visil)le or semi-visible enemy that lives, half lives, thinks or thinks he or she or
it thinks, or moves, or crawls, or swims, or flies, summon us to the resciie (juick.
We'll be your saving bodyguard.
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THE BATTLEFIELD
Cynics' Club
Motto: "Weep and the world weeps with j^ou,
Laugh and j'ou hmgh alone.
Flower: Weeping Willow. Colors: Red and Black.
Cynics
Katharine Bartenstein
Elizabeth Billingsley
Lucille Boggs
Grace Edwards
Jean Graves
Junia Graves
Thirteenth Memher
Olive M. Hinman
Cynics
Buford Lyne
Belle Pearce
Rachel Pearce
Ethel Taylor
Isabel Willis
Isabella Wortham
Song: Forgotten.
OOTHCR GU175C C^ffS
THE BATTLEFIELD
Mother Goose Club
Geese
Mother Goose OLIVE HINMAN
Teeny-Tiny MARY LIN COLEMAN
Puneh MARY WARNER JOHNSON
Judy NANNIE WALLER PARKER
Twcedle-Dum BERTHA SCOTT
Tweedlc-Dee ELLA GARNETT HOSKINS
Cross Patch MARY SNEAD
Goslings
Ten o'clock scholar ANGIE BRAY
Jack Sprat '. NELL FORD
Jack Sprat's wife SARAH TEMPLE SEGAR
Little Jack Horner LOUISE LEWIS
Humpty Dumpiy NANNIE OLIVER
Simple Simon KATHLEEN SCOTT
Miss Muffet ELOISE TOWILL
Tom, Tom, the Piper's son BETSY TRIBLE
Old Mother Hubbard CATHARINE WARE
Constitution : By-Laws :
For every evil under the sun 1. A man of words and not of deeds
There is a remedy, or there is none. Is like a garden full of weeds.
If there be one, try and find it ; For when the weeds begin to grow.
If there be none, never mind it. Then doth the garden overflow.
Article op Membership :
Speak when you're spoken to. 2. Tit for tat —
Come ■when you're called. You kill my dog,
Shut the door after you, I kill your cat.
And turn to the wall.
Motto : Needles and pin^, needles and pins.
When a man marries his trouble begins.
Colors : Light Blue and White. Mascot : Little Boy Blue.
Yell : Hot cross buns, Hot cross buns.
Hot cross buns. Hot cross buns.
One a penny, two a penny. If you have no daughters
Hot cross buns. Give them to your sons.
Song : Polly put the kettle on, Game : Dance, thumpkin, dance.
And then we'll all have tea. First Swim: February 14, 1913.
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"The Better-to-Sew, My Dear" Club
Mascct : ' ' Peter Pan of Brompton. ' '
Constitution : Invite Koko Eowe over real often.
By-Law: Miss Hinman shall serve fudge or chocolate with marshmallows in it, every time
we meet in her room, under penalty of twenty-five cents fine.
Codicil: 1. Every member must entertain the club at leatt once during the session.
2. We will meet once a week, on Saturday afternoon, and so and so and so.
Postscript: There shall be always a thirteenth member.
Members
Katharine Bartenstein
Isabel Willis
Buford Lyne
Anne Harris
Louise Henley
Belle Wortham
Ethel Taylor
Lueile Boggs
Bill Billingsley
Nell Henry
Myrtis Tankard
Thirteenth Member
Olive M. Hinman
Honorary Member
Margaret D. Fraser
THE BATTLEFIELD
Happy Dozen Club
Motto: Laugh and others will "jine" in.
P\.owER : Pink Carnation. Colors : Pink and Pea Green.
EMMA LANKFORD President
JOYCE BRADFORD Vice-President
ALICE CHILTON , Secretary-Treasurer
ANNE LATANE WARE Wit Editor
Joyce Bradford Grace Edwards
Angie Bray Kathleen Scott
Alice Chilton Myrtis Tankard
Alice Finney Betsy Trible
Louise Lewis Anne Latane Ware
Eiunia Lankford Winnie Walker
THE BATTLEFIELD
The Red Head Club
Motto : "Resolved: That we will be shining lights for midnight wayfarers."
Color : Sage Green. Charm : Rabbit 's foot.
Flower : White Rose.
ISABEL WILLIS President
ANNE LATANE WARE Vice-President
KATHARINE BARTENSTEIN Secretary-Treasurer
KOKO ROWE Honorary Member
Lillian Haislip Lois Shumau
Laura Smith Mary Deierhoi
Flora Hill Sue Walker
THE BATTLEFIELD
Anti-Crush Club
Mascots
MARGUERITE CARTER
WARREN RUSSELL
Motto : Love everybody, crush noljody.
Flower : Forget-me-not.
Crushers
Sallye Roberts and Rachel Pearce
Buford Lyne and Mary Donnally
Ethel Taylor and Isabel Wortham
Lottie Broaddus and Sex Smith
Elizabeth Billingsley and Elsie Coleman
Food: Kisses.
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THE
BATTLEFIELD
Y. W. C. A. Reception
N Friday evening, Septeniljer 19, 1912, the Young
Women's Christian Association gave a reception to the
student Iiody and faculty of tlie school, in honor of the new
girls.
In the receiving line were our president and his
wife, Mr. and Mrs. Russell, Miss Forbes, our lady princi-
pal, and the officers of the association in order. As the
long line of girls passed by, a word of greeting and a hand
of welcome was extended to each.
A short program of entertainment had been
arranged for the evening. The tirst number was a tableau of "The Pink
Lady," represented by a girl gowned in pink and white, and seated in a
graceful pose, while the "Pink Lady" was sung by a (juartette of girls.
Another tableau, "A Garden of Roses," showed the faces of a number
of girls wreathed in roses, wliile the song was rendered as a solo. Several
entertaining recitations were given, and some songs of the old double quartette.
After this, the assembly was requested to march around and pass through
Blue Beard's den before returning to their seats. On arriving in Blue Beard's
den their faces blanched and their blood turned cold to see the awful Blue
Beard in person, striding up and down his den as he muttered dreadful threats
and waved his sword in threatening circles; but most awful of all was the
spectacle of his unfortunate wives strung to the wall by their hair, while drops
of blood trickled down their faces.
After this nerve-straining ordeal, the tension was relaxed by the serving
of simple refreshments, after which the evening closed with many expressions
of enjoyment from the guests.
THE BATTLEFIELD
The Tacky Party
Great excitement reigned in the dormitory on the evening of October
the fifth. Garments of the most gorgeous hues were exchanged and donned for
the great event; faces were painted and masks made. Finally all in their most
glittering array assembled in Russell Hall.
The fun began in the proper way by serving delightful refreshments
K;onsisting of a stick of peppermint candy stuck in a lemon. In two corners of
the room gypsies had pitched camp. These were presided over by the two
"belles" of the school, Misses Wortham and Pearce, both of whom told with
marvelous foresight and power, the unknown future to all who applied. In the
center of the room a herald beat a dish pan as an invitation to come and, with
eyes blindfolded, try to pin the girati'e's tail in the proper place. Many
attempted, some even getting it so close as to pin it on the poor animal's ear
and nose. Finally the grand parade, the real event of the party, came. The
faculty sat in state and watched closely to judge who had reached the artistic
height in tackiness. Truly a hard problem, but after much discussion it was
decided that Miss Angle Bray should receive the first prize ; Miss Graham
Mastin, the second, and Miss Ruth Carter, the third. The prizes were awarded by
Mr. Tyner, and as it had been previously announced that they would be every
girl's heart's desire, the fortunate ones opened them with eagerness, while the
others looked on in expectant silence. They proved to be all that was claimed:
each a man in miniature, the more appreciated because they are so scarce. After
some dancing the party was over.
THE BATTLEFIELD
The Hallowe'en Party
On Hallowe'en night a party was given to the faculty and students by
the Y. W. C. A. As the lights did not burn, the guests were rather late in
going to the gym, where the party was given.
A few girls started out before the lights came on, nevertheless. They
were met a little distance from the dormitory by a band of witches. At the
gj'm door they were met by another band.
When tlie lights appeared the rest of the guests arrived and the party
began. There was a witches' dance, after which refreshments were served and
the guests had their fortunes told.
All then went to the basketball court where two large fires were burning.
The rest of the evening was spent in toasting marshmallows before these fires.
Soon the time for departure arrived and the students and faculty went
away feeling that thej' had spent a very pleasant evening.
THE BATTLEFIELD
Thanksgiving Dinner
Menu
OYSTERS ON HALF SHELL
OYSTEEETTES
ROAST TURKEY
CRANBERRY SAUCE
POTATO AU GRATIN
ASPARAGUS TIPS ON TOAST
NEAPOLITAN CREAM
ASSORTED CAKES
FRENCH PEAS
DEMI-TASSE
NUTS
THE BATTLEFIELD
Our Maiden Attempt at Entertaining
The First Professional Class met and decided to have an entertainment —
principally to show oif the talent and wit of the class, and to make some money
for the Athletic Association, by the way. It was to excel everything before
dreamed of in modern history, and it fulfilled its purpose, for, since the days
of the Ol.ympian games, nothing has held an audience as spell bound.
There were tableaux — some even moving tableaux — which even up-to-date
Fredericksburg has not yet attained. The operatic stars reached their climax
in "Kentucky Babe," for the rendering of that solemn and pathetic symphony
was in advance of even the twenty-first centur.y.
If Washington Irving had thought that any of his productions would
ever be reproduced liy such celebrated actresses he would have had a much
greater fondness for the fair sex. We were determined to have everything
new, so lehabod Crane and Brom Bones galloped through "Sleepy Hollow"
on their bony skeletons — called horses — going to Katrina's.
Between these marvelous performances, instrumental solos were rendered
by one of our fair damsels. All the glory and beauty of this occasion belonged
entirely to us — the First Professionals — except one important feature, and we
felt that this, too, belonged to us in great part. For the witty speeches of one
of our most loyal friends tided us over many difficulties, and helped, to a great
extent, in making our maiden attempt the decided success it was. If any one
doubts that it was a success, let him ask how nuicli "chink" we took in.
The Book Party
The Y. W. C. A. entertained its members with a book party on January
25, 1913. Among the guests was a lad with his sleeve hanging pathetically
empty, and his freckled face aglow with health. A lady, gorgeous in dress of
Japanese fashion, excited much curiosity, while a boy and girl with their bright
scarfs and (|ueer wooden shoes made one think of far-away Holland. Many
were decorated with emblems whicli seemed to have a hidden significance.
What did it mean?
Each person had been asked to represent a book ; that explained the queer
costumes and strange decorations which some of the guests wore. "Hans
Brinker's" devotion to "Gretchen" was understood, while "Freckles" made
an appeal to our sympathy none the less strong. Especially apt representations
were made of "Leather Stocking Tales," "The Open Question," and "The
Moonstone." Much entertainment was afforded by guessing the names of the
books which were represented.
The guests were entertained liy music and recitations, and when refresk-
ments were served and the guests took leave, all agreed that the occasion had
been one of great pleasure.
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Buns
On January the twenty-ninth, the First Professional Class was invited
to eat a bun and have a cup of ehoeolate with Miss Hinman, our honorary mem-
ber, who always strives for the welfare of our class. The occasion was one to
bring joy to any school girl's heart, for there were buns and chocolate galore.
Next to eating, what could give us more pleasure than gossip ! And gossip we
did. Each girl strove to outdo the other in starting marvelous rumors, which
created much excitement. At the end of the hour we left, all declaring that
our honorary member was indeed an honor to our class.
Jumbled Vegetables
It was with great delight that the members of Mrs. Chandler's Bible
Class learned that they were to be rewarded for their faithful ( ? ) efforts by
being given a party. Their interest and delight were further aroused when it
was announced that some boys from town were coming, and there would lie
enough of them to "go 'round."
That this interest never wavered was shown by the fact tliat every girl
arrived promptly upon the scene of action, and was received by the hostess in
that charming manner peculiar to herself. Soon afterwards the boys came and
the party began. A rather unusual thing for a party now took place — fifteen
"jump led vegetables" were passed around to each couple. Do not think, how-
ever, that these vegetables were the refreshments, for the3', and very elegant
ones they were, came later. These "jumbled vegetables" were on paper, and
were to be re-arranged and spelled correctly within a certain time. Owing to
the usual aptitude of the "Normal" girls, plus the noble assistance of their
partners, eight couples succeeded in writing out all fifteen vegetables correctly.
Then the girls had to "draw straws," and Miss Catharine Ware drew the win-
ning straw and landed the much-coveted prize.
A])out this time we were reminded of the late liour )iy the winking of
the lights, and tliis most enjoyaltle event ended with fifteen "ralis" from the lioys
for Mrs. Chandler.
THE BATTLEFIELD
Boys Were There!
One moment. Did I hear you ask for curling irons? Not since tlie night
of February 22nd have they been obtainable in the city of Fredericksburg.
Why? The girls of the Normal have long since bought all in their range.
Excitement rang through every corridor in the dormitory. In each room could
be found at least three girls doing a thing quite unusual for Normal School
girls — "prinking." What was the meaning of all this? The Student Activity
Committee had planned a reception for the girls. Now that the night and hour
had arrived it found a gay assemblage of girls, as we would usually say, but not
so tonight, for boys were there ! !
' ' Can this be the auditorium 1 ' ' was the buzz of the entire body of girls.
It was hard to realize that this beautiful room with its artistic decorations was
anything other than a Bohemian banquet hall. The entire crowd seemed thrilled
with joy and excitement. The climax was reached when the guests were invited
to the dining room, which looked as if it were a Japanese flower garden. All
kinds of dainties were served. Each person was presented with a cherry, which
made all participants wish that Washington knew that the tradition of the
cherrv tree was still alive in the hearts of his countrvmen.
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Dot's Burglar
■^^■■^■■■■1 ANB RANDOLPH, where on earth have you Ijeen 'I Do you
ykiiow I've been sitting here, afraid to move, for the last
half an hour? You may laugh, but, after what I've heard,
I dared not move from the room."
"Do calm yourself, Dot, and tell me what has happened,"
Jane answered, slipping an arm around the little figure on
the low window seat. "You were quietly reading when I
went out a few minutes ago. Surely nothing very dreadful could have occurred
in such a short time. ' '
"Dreadful? Well, I should say so! Two men are plotting to break into
this room tonight. 1 overheard them talking right under the window. One of
the men pointed up here, and I distinctly heard him say 'rope ladder'! Oh!
Jane, what shall we do? I wish I had never seen this old school! I want to go
home ; I want to go h-o-m-e ! ' ' she murmured, burying her face in Jane 's con-
venient lap.
"Don't cry, Dot," and the older girl smoothed the chestnut curls gently.
"I hardly think any one would attempt a burglary in this small town. Perhaps
you misunderstood what the man said."
Up came the tumbled curls with a jerk. "I heard him say as plainly as
I hear you, Jane Randolph, but I can't make you realize our danger, and I know
we are going to be murdered ! ' ' she moaned.
"Whatever can be the matter with Sis Dot? Does she want to go
h-o-m-e?" mimicked a laughing voice from the doorway.
Jane looked up in grief.
' ' Oh, Lucile, come and see if you can comfort her. She declares she over-
heard some men plotting to break into the house tonight. Tell her aboiit it. Dot. ' '
With much effort, Dot tried to impress upon her roommate the reality of
their danger.
' ' You will tell the policeman, won 't you, Lucile ? ' ' she pleaded.
"What a crazy! Tell the policeman! Not if I know it! This is the
first chance Lucile Crane has ever had to be a heroine, and she doesn't mean
to let it slip, either. The police shan't have the glory of this capture, if I can
help it."
"But, Lucile," Jane began.
"Now don't say a word, Jane! You always object to my plans for
adventure, and, if you interfere this time, I'll never speak to you again! I'm
going right down town and buy a pistol, ' ' and tlie door slammed after her dis-
appearing figure.
The evening shadows had long since deepened into the cold winter's night.
Not a sound broke the stillness which hung aliout the old gray walls and massive
pillars of this school, and all of its inmates seemed wrapped in the depths of
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slumber. A twinkle of light, from an upper window, showed an exception, how-
ever, and in tliis room three thoroughly frightened girls talked in fearful
whispers. Two trunks were piled, one above the other, against the window, and
in front of these stood Lueile Crane, pistol in hand. On the third trunk sat
Jane, armed with an old andiron, and in the middle of the floor that important
young lady herself brandishing a broomstick wildly.
"I shall go crazy with suspense, if this lasts much longer, Jane. I feel
as if I must scream or do something desperate; 1 just can't stand it another
minute!" and down went the broomstick, witli a loud clap.
"Do be quiet. Dot — listen!"
A sharp grating sound was distinctly heard.
' ' 0-o-oh ! he 's throwing the rope up ! " ' gasped Dot. ' ' I heard it scrape
against the house. ' '
With this the three girls rushed toward the bed, and six trembling hands
pushed it against the trunks. In her haste Lueile had dropped the pistol and
now it was nowhere to be found.
"That is just like your carelessness, Lueile Crane !" declared Dot. "What
geese we were to listen to you, anyway ! I 've a mind to go and call Mrs. George,
right now."
"All right, old girl, if you can face the job, do it, but Lueile Crane
means to stay in the background; she doesn't care to be frozen solid to night,
by icy words rolling down from Her August Majesty : ' Young ladies, I am sur-
prised at such childish behavior. Of course you heard nothing of the kind. It is
shameful in you to arouse me at this hour of the night!' No, girls, it won't do;
we will have to think of some other way out of this difficulty. ' '
After roll-call the next morning, Mrs. George arose in her impressive
manner and tapped the bell for silence. "Girls," she said, "for a long time we
have thought that our arrangements for your safety, in case of fire, were not
good, so we have at last decided to provide the girls of each room with a fire
escape. This afternoon a rope ladder will be found in each room with full
directions for adjusting it to the window ledge.
In the pause which followed this startling announcement, three pairs of
sleepy-looking eyes exchanged glances, and ill-repressed laughter broke from
three sadder but wiser girls.
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" The Wisdom of the Foolish and the
Folly of the Wise."
'So much by way
of introduction ' '
THE BATTLEFIELD
" The Folly of the Wise. "
Martha: "Oh, you have turned your room around."
Nell: "No, we have just turned thing's around in the room."
Elsie: "Lottie, I went to see j'ou this afternoon."
Lottie (calmly) : "Well, I must not have been at home."
B. Taylor (on her return from the inauguration): "I saw William
Cullen Bryant in the parade ! "
Rachel (on the housetop) : "Suffrage, no! 1 don't want a vote. I want
a voter. ' '
Prof. Harrison in Geometry Class: "Now any idiot could see that these
two angles are ecjual. "
Buford Lyne (in Sociology) : "The statistics of a country depend upon
infant morality. ' '
Two problems that we Seniors have to deal with : B. Y. Tyner and
D. J. Dadmun.
Katharine Bartenstein (eating her first olive): "Oh! it has something
hard in it."
Belle : ' ' Isn 't Miss von Hof sten from Chicago ? ' '
Sam : ' ' No, indeed ! she is from Illinois. ' '
Louise Henley (to the wit editor) : "Come to me for anything that is
needed in the wit column."
Agnes: "What disease do you say a peraon has when they steal things
belonging to other people?"
Myrtis (quickly) : "Why hookworm."
Elsie King (to a Senior, September 15, 1912) : "This evening down
town, the boys kept calling me a rat. What did they mean?"
Miss Wortham : "I didn't have to come here this year. I could have
got married.
Rat (interested) : "Why didn't you?"
Miss Wortham: "First, because no one has asked me; second, because
my modesty forbids my asking anyone, and third, ray mother and friends
think I am too young to take the fatal step."
THE BATTLEFIELD
Sain : ' ' Sprout, where is Katharine ? "
Sprout : ' ' She has gone to Cabinet meeting. ' '
May: "Oh! how lovely! did she take supper there?"
Miss Graves (in Physiology) : "How do you get the temperature of the
liver ? ' '
Nell Henry (suavely) : "Swallow the thermometer."
Miss Rachel Pearce (speaking of the Anniial) : "I am delirious for the
Annual to come out. ' ' ( She looks it. )
One of the faculty: "Miss D. says when she tells the girls to refrain
from talking they keep right on."
Mrs. H. : "Well what can you expect, when Miss F. tells them in music
to refrain means do it again ! ' '
Why do boys like to fish at the Normal School?
Because Pykes are found there.
H. Daniel's advice to Juniors: "Don't read reference books, borrow
some one 's notes the night before exams. ' '
Mr. Tyner's advice to Seniors: "Take your time, take your time, just
take your time.
But once we tried, and came out with a 49.
Mr. Tyner (in Philosophy of Education Class — to Miss Buford) : "Which
is the better fitted to keep house, the girl who has kept house for several
years without having taken a course in Domestic Science, or the girl who goes
off to school and takes a course in Domestic Science?"
Buford (shyly) : "I don't know, I haven't tried it yet."
Miss Withers (in class) : "What do we put in bread to make it rise?"
Alice Chilton : ' ' Carbohydrates. ' '
Nell: "Why, hello! Catharine, have j'ou been in swimming?"
Catharine (with bathing cap on and suit in her hand) : "Yes."
Nell : ' ' Did you get wet ? ' '
Catharine: "No, the water was dry."
Clerk: "What kind of shoe will you have. Miss Nance?"
Fanny : ' ' Something suitable for ' Ware. ' ' '
THE BATTLEFIELD
Quiz
y
HAT kind of chocolate does Katharine Rice prefer? — Hurst.
What does Sue Walker dream about? — Bill.
Why does Helen Daniel enjoy visiting in the country? —
She likes Acres.
Why is Alice Chilton always rising up in music class? —
She rather likes a Downing.
With what was Gay Wilson struck ? — With an Elbow.
What holds the roof on a house ? — Ask Jane Garth.
Who will be the first to catch Ruth Lord ?— Look out for the Miller.
Why doesn't Belle Pearce like to go to church on Sunday? — She expects
to become a Christian an.yway.
Why did Annie Nicholas enjoy her discussion in History of Education ? —
It was about the University of Virginia.
Wliat is Mary Chesley's favorite occupation? — Pow(e)ing.
Why is there a hole in the rug in front of the bureau of Alice Finney's
room? — Ask Emma.
Why is "Virginia" a leading State? — Because of her "Fleet."
What is the school's largest jewel? — "Pearl."
Why is Clara Morgan like a Chinese girl ? — Because she is fond of ' ' Rice. ' '
Why is Mrs. Chew like the man at a railroad crossing? — Because when
she comes to a crossing on the hall, she alwaj'S stops, looks and listens.
Where does "Bee" go every day? — To the "Graves."
Wliat did the Cook give Miss Dadmun as a parting gift ?
Lost
At midnight, Charlotte Rice in the lard can.
In Lucile Brown's room, many, many boxes of pills.
Between the Normal School and Mrs. Tankard 's, Emma Lankford 's heart.
By Mr. Chesley — his hair pins.
A gym class — Miss Graves.
A woolyworm — Miss Jackson.
Some sleep — Miss Dadmun.
An opportunity to spoon — The crushes.
A jar of preserves — Mary Snead.
A white pump — Ula Cluverius.
The Pulman home, the fourth of March — Mr. Chandler.
THE BATTLEFIELD
Found
Bj' Louise Henley, an eavesdropper on the back steps.
Bertha and Ella Garnett together.
One little pig ; owner apply to Mrs. Russell.
Annie Foster in the bathroom with a dinner bell.
By Miss Dadmun, an unearthly shriek coming from above.
By Mrs. Chew, extraordinary behavior on the halls.
A mystery — Miss Fraser's handbag.
By the measly bunch, a desperate feeling.
By Nell Ford, a kimono belonging to ' ' every little movement.
A red hat; owner apply to Mrs. Chew.
A "weaver," by Angle Bray.
A "Junco"- — Bertie Cralle.
A nest of "Tee-hee'(s) " — Emma Lankford.
A "Roch," by Agnes James.
A "new bill," by Ella Garnett Hoskins.
A ladder, by Mr. Harrison.
A "Blossom," by Martha Fleet.
A good time for a "Row(e)," by M. W. Johnson.
THE BATTLEFIELD
Don'ts
Don't study by electric lights, tliej' injure your eyes. Cut up till they
go out and study by a candle.
Don't remember any of Mr. Hamlet's lecture. "Simply take note."
Don't bother Mary Warner, or you will hear Angle Bray.
Don't primp so much, there are no boys around.
Don 't feed the birds. Save the food for poor, starving Normal school girls.
Don't sleep in your own room at night. You won't have to make up
your bed in the morning.
Don't crush, doctors pronounce it unsanitary.
Don't sing to Lou, Agnes will get jealous.
Don't expect high marks; then you won't be disappointed.
Don't let a teacher frighten the boys on the street with you.
Don't get up before the breakfast bell rings. Early rising is injurious
to health.
Don't leave the halls before 12 p. m. ; you might miss all the fun.
Don 't avoid measles ; we all want it.
Don't have your picture put in the Annual, it isn't stylish.
Don't ask Mrs. Chandler to play croquet, you will surely insult her.
Don't, under any circumstances let any trash get in the scrap baskets
on the hall, while there is any room for it on the floor.
"Don't stop your auto with a crank," says Mr. Harrison, "run it into a
telephone pole, it requires more science."
Don 't ask permission to go to town, it worries Miss Forbes. Go without it.
Don't ever straighten up your room. It will deprive you of Mrs. Chew's
delightful correspondence.
Don't forget that Psychology depends on other things being equal.
Don't molest Dee Walker, her crush may hurt you.
Don't wear a roat down to breakfast. You may not need it.
Don't put you history papers in Room 2. It's much easier to knock
at 109!
Don't lower your voices after the lights go out. The faculty would
miss your delightful ( ? ) conversation.
THE BATTLEFIELD
out.
burg.
Wanted
Wanted — by Mrs. Chew, absolute silence on the halls.
Wanted — by Emma Lankford, a vocal music lessou every day.
Wanted — by Miss Fraser, round flute-like tones.
Wanted — by the Second Year Class, the trophy cup.
Wanted — by Martha Fleet, a Pi Kappa Alpha "frat" pin.
Wanted — by Miss Stone, an outline which will make the big points stand
Wanted — by Mr. Hamlet, excommunication of all boys from Fredericks-
Wanted — by Miss Forbes, a padded bag in which to carry her keys.
Wanted — to know the color of Mary Deierhoi's hair.
Wanted — by Mr. Chandler, a Latin class that will catch his point.
Wanted — by Miss Jackson, Narcissus bulbs that will produce blossoms.
Wanted — to know why does the morning watch ?
Wanted — by Elsie Coleman and Elizabeth Billingsley, a "crush" of
their own "Sex."
Wanted — to know why the fate of the Normal School girls depends on
' ' Hamlet 's Soliloquy. ' '
Wanted — by Catherine Ware, one Chandler crab.
Wanted — the name of the author of the following verse :
Mary, Mary, quite contrary.
How do your lovers go?
Handsome eyes, cheery smiles.
And true hearts all in a Eowe.
Wanted — to know, does Mr. Russell when a wind storm strikes Fred-
ericksburg. Also information as to whether Miss Withers in hot weather.
Wanted — to know where Rice grows by the Sea(y).
Wanted — to know if anything personal is meant by the amount of brains
that are given us to eat.
Wanted — to know why Mary Donnaly always follows a straight "Lyue. "
Wanted — to know what secret order Emma likes best — the Masons.
Wanted by Mr. Tyner — "A new conception as a whole."
Wanted by Miss Hinman — Measles.
Wanted by K. Bartenstein — An inspiration.
Wanted bj' Annie Latane Ware and Ethel Ta.ylor — One pound of tea
infusion.
Wanted to know by Grace Edwards — Whj- somcboch/ alwa.vs "picks on
her?"
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THE BATTLEFIELD
Medical
INFIRMARY STAFF (Jail Force)
Judge : Dr. Smith Policeman : Miss Forbes
Jailors: Miss Spencer and Miss Segar
Saturday, March 15, 1913: Ten girls sent to jail for fifteen days.
Punishment for Misbehavior: An extra day in prison.
Offences Punished by Imprisonment: Unlawful possession of measles
Required by Each Measley Jail Bird: One acrobatic stunt before
release.
Refreshment : A piece of glass to suck.
Amusements of "Measley Bunch": Playing flinch, dominoes and
checkers.
\ I. You must keep away from the windows.
I II. Don 't dare go near the curtain.
Rules for the "Measley Bunch "■{ III. Always stay in your room.
I IV. Cold bath every day.
I V. Temperature taken twice daily.
[VI. Throat gargle twice every hour.
Notes :
"Doctor, please don't give me that medicine, it gives me hysterics." —
L. L. M.
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Miss Forbes: "Now you must gargle your throats every hour. Do you
know how 1 ' '
New Girl: "No, ma'am, I've never gargled."
Miss Forbes: "Well, I'll give you an ocular demonstration."
New Girl: "Oh, do I have to have that, Miss Forbes. You haven't
given that to another single girl ! ' '
Dr. Smith (suspecting flat foot) : "What kind of shoes do you wear?"
Miss G. B. : "Shoes! Why, Doctor, I have a pair of patent leather
pumps, some white ones, some tan ones and one pair of pink party slippers!"
The largest "Pearl" in the world is the "Measley Bunch's Side Show."
Sodium Bicarbonate and Its Usages : Ask Miss Hiiiman.
Virginia Gordon's Complication: "Grape Juice" on the brain.
She laughed her girlish laughter — and the moment after
She sneezed the fatal sneeze — it's the measles, if you please.
ON HIS WflY"^
THE BATTLEFIELD
"I know I have heard the biggest secret in school! Well — yes, but you
must promise not to breathe it to a soul. Annie Scott is going to be married
directly after school is out, and during Commencement the girls are going to
give her a hose shower. ' '
"Listen, Nell, don't dare say anything about this, because I don't think
Mr. Russell wants it to get out in town; but Belle said that Katharine said
that Miss Plinman told her that Mr. Russell said in faculty meeting last night,
that there was to be a lecture out here verj' soon."
"Really there is no limit to what you can hear in this school. Well, they
say — though, of course, I don't believe it; but, anyway, don't you tell, because
it was told to me confidentially — that one of the teachers said in class this morn-
ing that she had been told by Mr. Russell that any girl could take measles for an
elective the second term."
Julia Keaton: "Listen, Bertha, Ruth told me, but we had better keep
quiet about it, that she saw Mrs. Chew coming out of Isabel Willis's closet,
and what do you suppose she was looking for? Brooms."
"Oh! let me tell .you something, girls — but please don't let it go any
farther — Well, Bessie Jesse said that Miss Forbes told her that Miss Dadmuu
went to Washington on March 3rd, to be in the Suffragette Parade!"
It is vaguely hinted that Miss Ilinman has a new dress which isn't
brown — Stranger things niaij have happened.
THE BATTLEFIELD
Elizabeth said that Dr. Smith joined the Rifle Club because it was a
lawless band.
Louise Henley got 100 on a chemistry test ! Mr. Hamlet : ' ' Wonders
will never cease."
"We got it from good authority that one of the girls on the Varsity term
was wearing Mr. Harrison's diamond — perhaps.
If you could hear Mr. Chandler reading Cicero, you would think it was
the old fellow himself.
The conversation at the faculty table lools so interesting, that the girls
burn with curiosity to hear it. It is said that the girls at one table had actually
moved within two feet of the faculty before they were discovered.
Mr. Chandler has such a comforting way of dealing with his classes; for
instance, when Lillian Haislip had seventeen mistakes in her Latin prose, he
wrote her the most cheering little note, commending her great improvement.
THE BATTLEFIELD
Closing Week
HE sun is shilling bright
With such glorious, radiant liglit
As is only seen in June.
Birds are singing in the trees ;
Flowers are blooming on the leas;
The world's in tune.
Tlie girls of the Normal School,
Freed from every binding rule,
Are wandering all around.
Some are crying, "An exam!
Unless we begin to cram,
Our doom will sound!"
Some have nothing much to do
But hear, ' ' Oh, if I were you.
How soon for home I 'd start ! ' '
Still these faithful stay along
To raise sweet Commencement song
Ere thej' depart.
The Seniors soon will leave.
How we other girls will grieve !
Though some comfort we have found.
Other girls will come next year.
And the same good, merry cheer
Afar resound.
True, some happy days are o'er.
But we'll meet again once more,
And again play basketball.
We will take the same dear walks,
Listen as the same voice talks,
In the fall.
Jennie Cowell.
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and Binding of the above mentioned lines and solicit your considera-
tion of our quality before placing your contract. C. W^e will give
you suggestions that will save you more money than you can save
by placing your contract with the printer who features " prices."
THIS ANNUAL IS ONE OF OUR PRODUCTS
Dulaney-Boatwright Co., Inc.
810-812 CHURCH STREET LYNCHBURG, VA.
'^®' B. GOLDSMITH & SON '^'^
ESTABLISHED OVER HALF A CENTURY
OLD RELIABLE CLOTHIERS AND HABERDASHERS
S. N. S. PENNANTS AND PILLOW COVERS
(special inducement to students)
WE RESPECTFULLY SOLICIT YOUR VALUED PATRONAGE
B. GOLDSMITH & SON
MARKET CORNER. MAIN STREET FREDERICKSBURG, VA.
ADAMS'S BOOK STORE
The best oj- everything in Student Supplies, Spaulding Sweaters
and Tennis Goods, Waterman Fountain Pens, High-Grade
Stationery, Pennants and Pillow Tops, New and Second-
Hand Books.
VISITORS ALWAYS WELCOME
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Wr have
made an extra effort in secur
ng for
this SPRING and SUMMER the most
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tc- liue of dependable and up-to-date mer
chandis
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ver shown anv previous s
eason, •
h as shoes
in all the newest shapes an
J leathe
rs — such styles as vou will find onlv
here. j
Special li
ne of Hosierv, Shirtwaists,
Laces,
Embroiderie
s, Underwear, Kimonos,
Neck- 4
ar, Tiunks,
Suit-cases, Umbrellas, and so
forth.
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We extend a cordial invitation to Norn
al School Students
and the general public to
make •
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s store theii
headquarters, as a visit to the BIG
BRIGHT STORE will convince you that it ?
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■s to buy wl
ere Best Goods at Lowest Pri
ces and
Efficient Sc
rvice are rendered to all.
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E. M
. CURTIS
[ 215 COMMERCE STREET
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FREDERICKSBURG
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FEUERHERD'S
Ice Cream and Confectionery
823 MAIN STREET
If it's Furniture, Mat-
tings, Rugs, Trunks, and
House-furnishing goods,
or Picture Frames See
YOUNG FURNITURE CO.
FREDERICKSBURG. VA.
Incorporated 1851
MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS
AGENCY FOR VIRGINIA
CHAS. B. RICHARDSON. General Agent
RICHMOND
WILLIAM BERNARD
SPECIAL AGENT
FREDERICKSBURG. VA.
CONSULT US BEFORE PLACING YOUR LIFE INSURANCE
DINSMORE'S TRAINING OF CHILDREN
By John Wirt Dmsmure, A. M., Profes<;or of Pedagfogy and Dean of the Normal School of Berea Collece. Berea,
Ky. Author of "Teaching a District School."
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This new book for teachers furnishes sound instruction on the training of children,
based upon well-known and fundamental truths. The aim is to give teachers a better
understanding of children, and consequently to enable them to make their work in the class-
room more intelligent, more sympathetic, and more effective. It includes as much of
elementary psychology as is necessary, and possesses many commendable features not found
in more technical works. The practical is happily combined with the theoretical in a man-
ner that is interesting as well as easy of comprehension. The book is not an exhaustive
treatise, which can be put to no further use, but is confined to facts and principles which
will be of great benefit to teachers and parents.
Copies sent postpaid on receipt of price
American Book Company
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HIGH GRADE BUTTER AND CHEESE
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Absolute Safety
Conservatism
Square Dealing
Courteous Treatment
This is insured by a Board of
Directors who direct and give all
matters their careful attention.
Capital $30,000.00 Surplus $3,000.00
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strongest Bank
in the city
Frddlgroeikilbiari,, Viiriiiaiii
Girls — Please Marry
Some nice saw-mill bachelor so
we can sell him all his supplies,
saws, engines etc. We also
carry a full line of cutlery and
household articles for your up-
to-date home.
FRANK K. HLER, Fredericksburg, Va.
Hardware and Machinery Supplies
Md., Del. & Va. Ry. Co.
lor Sharp
NORFOLK ROUTE.
Saturday 2 p
. Thursday for Baltin
Your Trade Solicited
The largest and most attractive stock of BUILDING MATERIAL in Fredericksburg can be
found in our Store and Ware Rooms, including STAG SEMI-PASTE PAINT, one gallon
makes two. Most all goods bought by the car load, consequently are sold at lowest price.
lASTElS^ Mmm BU Wmi^nA^hmwi. ¥i!»
Laundry
Equipment
You will find American Laundry
Equipment in the leading Schools,
Hotels, Hospitals and Institutions
all over the country as well as in the
progressive custom laundries.
We will be glad to talk over your
laundry problems with you.
Write our nearest office.
T6e A)}ierica?i Laundry
Macbme?y Company
New York
Chi,
Cincinnal!
J. R. Rawlings
DEALER IN
Farmers' Supplies and
General Merchandise
AGENT FOR
Walter A. Wood Binders
Mowers and Rakes
Disc Harrows
Disc Cultivators
Thornhill Wagons
Rubber Roofing
Anything Needed by the Farmer.
J. R. Rawlings
FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA
RICHMOND, FREDERICKSBURG & POTOMAC RAILROAD
SOLID THROUGH TRAINS .T^T^ "™" " ™-
„...„ nr™,n.„ «.«--^-r« ERICKSBURG, AND NEW
DAILY BETWEEN MJ^S^
YORK CITY.
SCHEDULE
Leaves Richmond 12:01 noon, daily; Fredericksburg 1:28 p. m., due Wash-
ington 2:45 p. m., Baltimore 4:00 p.m., West Philadelphia 6:00 p.m.,
New York (7th Avenue and 32nd street) 8:00 p. m. Returning, train
leaves New York (7th Avenue and 32nd street) 11:08 a. m.. West Philadel-
phia 1:20 p. m., Baltimore 3:23 p. m., Washington 4:45 p. m., due
Fredericksburg 6:01 p. m., Richmond 7:35 p. m.
ALL STEEL ELEaRICALLY LIGHTED COACHES, PARLOR, CLUB AND DINING CARS ENTERING THE PENNSYLVANIA R.
R. STATION IN THE HEART OF NEW YORK CITY. MANY OTHER TRAINS AT CONVENIENT HOURS.
For full inf crmation regarding rates, schedules, etc., apply to the undersigned:
W. p. TAYLOR, Traffic Manager, C. C. COX, Agent,
Richmond, Va. Fredericksburg, Va.
THE FARMERS AND MERCHANTS STATE BANK
Fredericksburg, Virginia
WHAT IT HAS DONE and WHAT IT IS DOING
During the six years it has been in business, its surplus and profit
account has reached $30,000.00 in addition to paying its stockholders six
annual dividends, and its deposits have grown to equal those of any bank
in this city.
THE SAVINGS ACCOUNTS
of this Bank have been paid more than $35,000.00 interest on their
balances and these accounts can be checked on when desired.
THE ASSETS OF THIS INSTITUTION
are composed of first-class real estate loans, State, County of Spottsyl-
vania and City of Fredericksburg Bonds, and demand and short time
gilt edge commercial and collateral paper. In addition to this, its cash
reserve account is always from 20 to 30 per cent, of its deposits.
CAPITAL $50,000,00 SURPLUS $S0,000.00
RESOURCES $800,000.00
M. G. W^ILLIS, President JNO. F. GOULDMAN, Jr., Cashier
GEORGE W. HEFLIN
PLUMBING
TINNING
GAS and STEAM
FITTING
COOK STOVES
and RANGES
Fredericksburg
Virginia
M. S. Chancellor
DEALER IN'
wagons, carts, buggies,
binders, corn shellers,
cutting boxes, etc.
Mccormick mowers and
binders. superior disc
DRILLS that are SUPERIOR.
FARM IMPLEMENTS OF
EVERY DESCRIPTION.
CHANCELLOR
He Makes the Price
M. S. Chancellor
THE FARMERS SUPPLY STORE
Commerce St., Fredericksburg, Va.
CHESLEY & GARNER
Wholesale Grocers
Agents for Dupont's Powder and Dynamite
FREDERICKSBURG - - VIRGINIA
M. G. WILLIS
DEALER IN
High Grade Fertilizers
Agricultural Chemicals
Farm Seeds of All Kinds
FREDERICKSBURG
VA.
iFr^Jirrtrkaburg
An Old-fashioned Curriculum, in
an Olden Time Town
For Catalogue Address PRESIDENT
Fredericksburg, Virginia
E. G. HEFLIN
ARCHITECT
AND
BUILDER
23 LAW BUILDING
FREDERICKSBURG, VA.
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Photographer
913 EAST MAIN STREET
RICHMOND, VA,
Orders filled for Duplicates of Pictures
in this Annual
represent the best in piano construction — the ideal toward
which all should strive.
The rich quality of tone, the absolute evenness of scale,
the responsive touch, and the artistic design of case, make the
STARR unique in its excellence. It is the delight of all who
appreciate perfection.
Catalogs showing the various Starr models maj^ be had
on request.
THE STARR PIANO CO.
Factory and Executive Offices
RICHMOND, IND.
814 MAIN STREET
FREDERICKSBURG, VA.
CHARLES M. ROBINSON
ARCHITECT
Architect of the Fredericksburg
State Normal School Buildings
RICHMOND
VIRGINIA
R. A. Kishpaugh
Books
Stationery
Printing
ALL KINDS OF PRINTING FOR
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
Latest Addition to the Graded Classics Series
"TELL ME A STORY"
A FIRST READER
Bj Lida B. McMurry, Primary Critic
Teacher^ Illinois State Normal College.
"This greatest addition to the well-known
"Graded Classics Series' is in beautiful
clear print and tasteful bindinc. and is
filled with lively stories charmingly told
and illustrated by lots of the most ph-asint'
pictures, of which a dozen or so are in
colors. To see it is to feel at once the
spell of its vivacity and charm."
— N. C. EDUCATION
112 pp. Full of charming illustrations
mostly in colors. Price 30 cents.
B. F. JOHNSON PUBLISHING CO.
Atlanta Richmond Dallas
The Journal
rUE PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE
THE
Evening Journal
The Largest Paid Circulation of
any Daily in the City
Subscription Price, 25c per month. Per
year in admance, $2. 75.
The Fredericksburg
Jou?ytal
(Tri- Weekly)
The Largest Paid Circulation of any
Tri- Weekly in the City
SL 00 per year in advance
Jacob Umlauf
UPHOLSTERER and MAT-
TRESS MANUFACTURER
1326 West Broad Street
Richmond, Va.
CL I can furnish you all
kinds of mattresses, pil-
lows, etc.
CL Old ones made over
like new.
C Furniture repaired and
reupholstered in the best
manner.
YOUR ORDERS SOLICITED
Larkin & Rodgers
DEALERS IN
Ssiallg' Fusroanilniniiiili
822 Main St.,
Fredericksburg - Virginia
R. G. HILLDRUP
LIVERY, FEED and*
SALE STABLES
Hacks and
Automobiles
at all
Trains and
Steamboats
I>l\on<. 2:?4 C.ll.llm.I•<^e St..
FREDKRICKSBllRd - VA.
Vmrmtf Store
THE LEADER OF LOW PRICES
BIG LINE OF
SHOES,
CLOTHING,
HATS and CAPS,
DRY GOODS
and NOTIONS.
The best candy for 20c per lb.
il® Mania Strmmi
Brompton Stock Farm
REGISTERED
Jersey and Guernsey
Cattle
Berkshire Hogs
Bronze Turkeys
Improved Fowls
M. B. ROWE & CO.
Fredericksburg, Va.
.SANITARY
INSIDE & OUT
Leonard Cleaiiable Refriuerator sulci only by iJc-li A- Bru. The Hoosier Kitchen Cabinet sold only by Bell A Bro.
•*THE HOME." We furnish the Home throughout. Furniture, Carpets, Art Squares, Mattings,
Linoleums, Refrigerators, Screen Doors and Screen Windows, China. Gleissware, Etc.
Write us for prices. Your patronage solicited.
"Home Outfitters" W^. A. BELL & BRO. Fredericksburg, Va.
Goolrick's Modern Pharmacy
901 MAIN STREET
^juality Drugs
^iuality Soda
^jtality Cigars
Velvet Kind Ice Cream
Martha Washington Candies
Registered Pharmacist
DAY OR NIGHT TO FILL YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS
QUALITY, STYLE and FIT
Are the three essential qualities in Our Slices.
OXFORDS; TAN. BLACK and WHITE.
PUMPS; GUN METAL. RUSSIA CALF
and PATENT COLT. - - $3.00
WHITE DUCK PUMPS. $1.25 and up.
J. E. TIMBERLAKE
904 Main Street
ESTABUSHED 1871
. P. COL
Dealer in all kinds of
Painters' Supplies, Builders'
Hardware and Plumbers' Sup-
plies, Tarred and Rubber Roof-
ing, Lime, Calcined Plaster,
Cement, Nails, Cow Hair,
Bricks, Etc.
Tnia E®®&i
¥ CrainBp ll®®inEii
©ull^aiEinagdl M®®ll5i5ii
asp:
FREDERICKSBURG, VA.
The Planters National Bank
FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA
CAPITAL ^75,000 SURPLUS $15,000
President
M. B. ROWE
/ ice- Presidents
ALLEN SMITH R. CONROV VANCE
Cas/uers
W. J. FORD PAUL KARSTEN, Jr. H. B. LANE
Directors
F. C. BALDWIN ALEX BERGER GEO. FREEMAN, Jr.
Dr. J. W. MASSEY M. B. ROWE HENRY WARDEN
W. J. FORD
The largest capital of any Bank in this city.
The Planters National Bank offers every possible accommodation to its
depositors.
Attention is directed to the fact that this is the only National Bank in the
city which pays interest on savings accounts.
The students, the parents and friends are cordially invited to ask for any
information needed.
WRITE OR CALL ON US
A SAVINGS ACCOUNT CAN BE STARTED WITH
ONE DOLLAR
3% Savings x4ccouiit 3%
LEADERS OF SHLE AND fALUE
TAILORED SUITS,
SILKS, DRESS GOODS,
MILLINERY, WASH
GOODS, LINENS,
DRESSES, KIMONOS,
UNDER MUSLINS,
HOSIERY
A Trial Order Will Convince You
C. W. JONES
FREDERICKSBURG'S LARGEST STORE
F. T. COVEY
S. E. COVEY
Coveys' Florists
Bouquets and Funeral Designs
furnished at short notice
CUT FLOWERS A SPECIALTY
Fredericksburg, Va.
HOUSE PHONE 229
STORE PHONE 282
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